[Commlist] MIX 2025 Writing with Technologies - Call for Papers and Presentations

*MIX 2025: WRITING WITH TECHNOLOGIES | CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS *
*Wednesday 2 July 2025 at Bath Spa University’s Locksbrook Campus  *
Now in its eighth year, Bath Spa University’s MIX has established itself 
as an innovative forum for the discussion and exploration of writing and 
technology, bringing together researchers, writers, technologists and 
practitioners from around the world to make, think and talk. After our 
unique collaboration with the British Library in 2023, MIX 2025 will be 
hosted in the beautiful city of Bath at Bath Spa University’s Locksbrook 
Campus.
As part of our programme, New York Times bestselling writer and 
publisher Michael Bhaskar, currently working for Microsoft AI and 
co-author of the book /The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century’s 
Greatest Dilemma/, will appear in conversation.
MIX is situated within Bath Spa University’s world-class Creative 
Writing department within the School of Writing, Publishing and 
Humanities, as well as the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries, 
which also co-hosts the online magazine of writing and technology, The 
Writing Platform. MIX 2025 is part of the MyWorld programme, which 
explores the future of creative technology innovation.
Themes for this year's discussions include:
Issues of trust and truth in digital writing
The use of generative AI tools by authors, poets, and screenwriters
Debates around AI and ethics for creative practitioners
Emerging immersive storytelling practices
In a world where we are facing the challenges of disinformation, 
replication, and increasingly limited or siloed perspectives, it can 
feel that there is no place for truth, and that originality in human 
creativity has been devalued. While many practitioners in the fields of 
electronic literature and digital art have been experimenting with 
generative AI tools for decades now, many writers are disputing what 
they see as the vast infringement of copyright made by the technology 
corporations behind many LLMs (Large Language Models) and datasets. The 
writers’ strike in the USA made plain many of the concerns of the 
creative industries when it comes to the downgrading of their work 
through automation.

In addition, the environmental cost of the energy required to generate 
the computational power behind these tools is often ignored. And while 
the biases and falsehoods demonstrated by LLMs are well known, there is 
much more to discuss when it comes to considering the ethics of our 
engagement with these technologies. And yet, for many creators, AI tools 
boost productivity, increase resilience, and positively challenge our 
notions of authorship and authenticity.
Through our work on the UKRI-funded research project, MyWorld, we have 
hosted a series of webinars on Writing and Technology, with a focus on 
the debates and issues with regards to LLMs and AI tools. The 2025 MIX 
one-day symposium will build on and develop these fascinating and 
crucial conversations, enabling us to look at the promise of AI tools 
and the way they can enhance and support creativity, as well as honing 
our critical thinking in this rapidly developing field.
MIX 2025 will investigate the intersection between these themes and the 
challenges and opportunities for interactive and locative works, poetry 
film, screenwriting, writing for games as well as digital preservation, 
archiving, enhanced curation, and storytelling with AI. We also welcome 
papers or presentations on the innovative use of AI tools in creative 
writing pedagogy.
*Interested in joining us? *
We are looking for proposals for either 15-minute papers or 
presentations or 5-minute lightning talks from technologists, artists, 
writers, and poets as well as academic researchers and independent 
scholars. We are particularly interested in the work and views of 
creators, audiences and communities currently underrepresented across 
writing and technology.
To propose your paper or presentation for MIX 2025, please submit a 
300-word summary and a 150 biography of yourself and any co-presenters 
via our website.
  This will be a boutique version of MIX, with ticket numbers limited 
to 70.  
  £45 full price / £25 students/concessions.
Deadline for submissions of proposals: *5pm Monday 10 February 2025 *
Notification of acceptance: *Friday 28 February 2025  *
Email enquiries: (mix /at/ bathspa.ac.uk)
_www.mixconference.org <http://www.mixconference.org/>_



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