Colloquium
The Laboratory at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH)
The laboratory will participate in the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities.
Colloquium
Design questions all the way down. A General Methodological Model of Distant Reading
Yann Audin from Research Laboratory on Digital Writing will present a poster at the Annual Conference of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies
Conference
Modeling Intelligence from Turing to ChatGPT
Marcello Vitali-Rosati will give a lecture as part of the CERIUM summer school.
Colloquium
The Research Lab at Humanistica 2026
The laboratory will take part in the Humanistica 2026 conference in Paris.
Interview
Philippe Arseneault welcomed Marcello Vitali-Rosati on his program Plein phare.
Talk
Call for Doctoral contracts LREN, GREN, CRIHN (Université de Montréal)
The Research Laboratory on Digital Textualities, in collaboration with the GREN and the CRIHN, opens doctoral contract in Digital Humanities.
Conference
International Journalism Festival in Carleton-sur-Mer
Marcello Vitali-Rosati will participate in the 2026 International Journalism Festival in Carleton-sur-Mer
Colloquium
ACFAS 2026 Conference Symposium: “Dialogic Metamorphoses of the Digital Humanities (CRIHN-GREN Symposium)”
Two members of the laboratory, Giulia Ferreti and Federico Siragusa, will be speaking as part of the ACFAS 2026 Conference in Trois-Rivières.
Interview
A discussion with Juliette Bibasse
The Digital Writing Research Laboratory had the great pleasure of meeting Juliette Bibasse, an artist and curator
Colloquium
Conference on Artificial Creativity
From April 27 to 29, 2026, the XR2C2 Center is organizing a three-day conference on the relationship between creativity and AI in collaboration with the University of Montreal (CRIHN), EFELIA, Sic.Lab, and the City of Nice.
Colloquium
Workshop : "Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, and Mimesis"
Juliette Sokolov from the Digital Writing Research Laboratory will give a presentation as part of the Intelligence and Imitation conference at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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"title": "Workshop : \"Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, and Mimesis\"",
"content_html": "<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"0\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"3f509c40-030c-497b-976a-7223d21ed85b\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-5\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full dark markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"501\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Juliette Sokolov</span>, a member of the Digital Writing Research Lab, will speak at the conference <span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, Mimesis</span> organized by <span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Johns Hopkins University</span> in <span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Baltimore</span>. Her presentation, titled “Why Turing's First Imitation Game Has Never Been Played,” will explore a reconstruction of the Turing Test applied to an LLM as a thought experiment highlighting the tension between the ontology and performativity of intelligence.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h2>Abstract</h2>\n<div>\n<div>While the Standard Turing Test has become a dominant framework for AI evaluation, Alan Turing's first imitation game, the<em> Gendered Turing Test</em> (GTT) has remained largely theoretical. This proposal examines the tension between the performativity and the ontology of intelligence through a reenactment of the GTT. We argue that the marginalization of the original Turing Test is not accidental, as it unsettles intelligence as a stable ontological category.</div>\n<br>\n<div>In the GTT, intelligence is neither defined as a mental property nor a cognitive attribute but as a constrained linguistic task. An interrogator engages in text-based exchanges with two unseen interlocutors (a man and a woman) and must determine their genders. A machine may replace one interlocutor, tasked with impersonating a woman. We revisit this game through a reenactment conceived as an operational thought experiment. The test enacts a performative definition of intelligence evaluated through an interrogator's interpretative judgment.</div>\n<br>\n<div>Our results are paradoxical: women, men and LLMs all won games in equal proportions despite significant individual variation. Rather than modeling intelligence, this result reveals the normative and ideological commitments embedded in the test. Outcomes depend on participants' personal investment, gendered expectations and identity projections, demonstrating how definitions of intelligence reproduce cultural constructions rather than isolate cognitive capacities.</div>\n<br>\n<div>The illegibility of the test's result does not stem from intelligence being immeasurable, but from its impossibility of definitive abstraction. The GTT compares singular individuals against one another, producing heterogeneous outcomes and no discernible pattern validating the initial tripartite division (man, woman, machine) over alternative categorizations. Turing tests attempt to draw a boundary between human and non-human in order to reassert intellectual superiority. Intelligence constitutes not an elusive quantity, but an abstraction that resists generalization.</div>\n<br>\n<div>This structural indeterminacy explains why the Gendered Turing Test has never functioned as a stabilizing experimental paradigm. By foregrounding mimesis, interpretation and performativity, the GTT shifts the imitation game from a measure of mind to a mirror of the conditions under which intelligence is recognized in human–machine relations.</div>\n</div>",
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