On March 30th at 12PM, please join us for what promises to be a stirring virtual discussion with the esteemed authors of the celebrated book Platforms and Cultural Production (2021, Polity Press)! Brooke Erin Duffy, David B. Nieborg, and Thomas Poell will join us to share how the book came together, their primary arguments, and […]
Join us for the fourth instalment in a series of talks planned collaboratively by the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG), Colonialism Race and Indigenous Ecologies (CRIE), and Society, Politics, Animals and Materiality (SPAM). The Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series will feature an online talk with Dr. Sophie Chao. Recent years have seen a resurgence of anthropological […]
Post Image presents artist Michèle Pearson Clarke, in the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography […]
Dr. Marika Cifor will speak about Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS: the Visual AIDS’s Archive Project and Artist+ Registry, as part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum and co-hosted by the DIGS Lab. The talk will […]
The Immersive Storytelling Studio (previously the Immersive Reality / VR Lab) invites you to Immersive and Augmented Performance practices, where our guests Zoey M. Cochran, Pierre-Henri Barralis and Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin will speak about their individual approaches to immersion and their collaborative process working with the “OpéRA de poche” project. When? March 6, from 5-7pm Where? […]
Join us for a live watch party of Elaine Gómez-Sanchez’ talk The Impact of Genuine and Mindful Inclusion of Marginalized Communities in Creative Works. Elaine will speak to how gaming has the power to destroy the perpetuation of stereotypical perceptions and will explain how games can be designed to create social impact in meaningful ways. […]
Large language models like ChatGPT are transforming the ways we communicate, learn, and interact with one another. In response, it's important to engage an interdisciplinary lens to examine the varied impacts of such technologies. To this end, the Digital Intimacies, Gender and Sexuality Lab, in collaboration with the Applied AI Institute, is organizing a panel discussion moderated by Stefanie Duguay and Fenwick […]
How can science fiction contribute to doing social sciences otherwise? On February 17th, 2023, the Ethnography Lab will be welcoming fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss fiction writing in relation to ethnographic practices. Kim Stanley Robinson is a world renowned science fiction author, winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, who’s work centers […]
Machine Agencies is thrilled to welcome Dr. Luke Stark for the talk "Laws of Inference: Conceptual Limits for Automated Decision-Making": Regulation via the epistemological structure of an application space is one potential mechanism to address the social impact of rapid advances in machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) methods used for automated decision-making. […]
The DIGS Lab is hosting a talk with Dr. Zhifan Luo on a computational approach to collecting, analyzing, and visualizing digital text as data. A deeply digitalized social world has brought studies of media to an “Age of Data Abundance,” which comes with its own opportunities and challenges. For a new generation of scholars, proper methodological […]
Join us for the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find the Ground, Post Image's cycle of artist talks and artist residencies, featuring a talk with black feminist theorist Tina Campt! Tina Campt's lecture reflects on the the afterlives of images re-activated in ways that imagine black life, bodies, and spaces across time. This lecture […]
Please join us for the next installment of the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series featuring Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia's talk 'Postcolonial Nature'. In this talk, the speaker reflects on three vectors that inscribe the historicity of postcolonial nature as the articulation of a certain kind of lived experience. (1) Land grabbing that renders indigenous inhabitants automatic serfs […]
