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Join us Monday, December 2, 2024 for the 4th Annual Stéfan Sinclair Lecture. Hosted by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire en humanités numériques (CRIHN) this conference will feature a keynote delivered by Dr. Isabel Pedersen.
Entitled “Create Me, Break Me, Remember Me: Art and AI in an Age of Reinvention” this talk will focus on embodied computing, algorithmic culture, augmented reality, emergent media, and AI ethics.
The talk will be followed by a round-table chaired by Geoffrey Rockwell with three graduate students.
ABOUT ISABEL PEDERSEN:
Dr. Isabel Pedersen, Professor of Communication Studies, is an expert in the field of emergent embodied technologies. She is the founding Director of the Digital Life Institute (www.digitallife.org) at Ontario Tech University. She investigates emergent and future digital technologies. She concentrates on social, ethical, and cultural implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), social implications of extended reality (XR), AI ethics, standards, and policy related to AI technologies. As an entrepreneur and co-owner, she has built and sold two successful software start-up companies.
ABOUT GEOFFREY ROCKWELL:
Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also a Fellow of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and worked at the University of Toronto as a Senior Instructional Technology Specialist. From 1994 to 2008 he was at McMaster University where he was the Director of the Humanities Media and Computing Centre (1994 – 2004) and he led the development of an undergraduate Multimedia program funded through the Ontario Access To Opportunities Program. He has published and presented papers in the areas of artificial intelligence and ethics, philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, humanities computing, instructional technology, computer games and multimedia. He was the project leader for the CFI (Canada Foundation for Innovation) funded project TAPoR, a Text Analysis Portal for Research, which has developed a text tool discovery portal at tapor.ca. He has published a book Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet with Humanity Books and a book titled Hermeneutica (with Stéfan Sinclair) with MIT Press. This book is part of a hybrid text and tool project with Voyant, an award winning suite of analytical tools.
📅: December 2, 2024 | 9-11 AM
📍: Milieux Resource Room | EV 11. 705
🌐 The event will be streamed here ( advance registration required)