High-Level Creativity: New Media Art and the Priorities of the Tech Industry Artists working with emerging technologies are often depicted as existing “outside” of the technology industry, both by scholars exploring technology and society as well as within their own perceptions of themselves and their output. Their works are alternately positioned as innovations, diagnostics and […]
Judy Radul’s video installations often incorporate an original computer-controlled motion choreography and playback system for live and pre-recorded video. Recent exhibitions include: Dazibao, Montreal, 2023; Gwangju Biennale, 2021; Albertinum Museum, Dresden, 2021; Kunstinstitute Melly, Rotterdam, 2017. Her large-scale media installation World Rehearsal Court (2009) has been shown in Vancouver, Vienna, Seoul, Oslo and Moscow. She has published […]
Dr. Lyn Bartram's work explores the intersecting potential of interactive technologies, visual analytics and computational media from both theoretical and applied perspectives, particularly to better support data-enabled thinking beyond the traditional applications of expert data science. She works in both standard and practice-based research methods in applications related to data visualization, personal visual analytics, computational […]
DDI Fall Speaker Series, 6th September from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Susan Erikson, SFU Faculty of Health Sciences and DDI Fluencies Faculty Fellow Dr. Erikson studies highly complex political and economic systems that shape human health experiences. She is a medical anthropologist who has worked in Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and North America. During an […]
Presentation by Dr. Sean Cubitt, 25th September from 4:00- 5:30pm PST His research links film and media studies with ecocriticism, technological, aesthetic, economic and political history, and the media arts and aesthetics. He is series editor of Leonardo Books (MIT Press) and serves on the boards of the Media Art History network, Goldsmiths Press, Media […]
Data Fluencies Speaker Series, 4th October from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Fallon Wilson & Jurnell Cockhren (Black Tech Futures Institute) Dr. Fallon Wilson is the vice president of policy at the Multicultural Media and Telecommunication Internet Council (MMTC) where she launched a national campaign, Black Churches 4 Broadband to support digital access in black communities. She is also […]
Presentation by Dr. Kate Henessey and PhD student Brett Gaylor, 1st November from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Kate is an anthropologist of media and the director of the Making Culture Lab at School of Interactive Arts and Technology, SFU where the research explores the role of digital technology in the documentation and safeguarding of cultural […]
Presentation by Aaron Mendon- Plasek, 6th December from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Aaron is a historian of science and technology. His work examines how schemes of quantification, including their material, cultural, and institutional instantiations, have been used to imagine, enact, and justify social order. His first book project offers a revisionist history of machine learning, from […]
Presentation by Victoria E. Thomas, 10th January from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Dr. Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Media and Public Engagement in the School of Communication. As an interdisciplinary scholar of Black Popular Cultural Studies, she primarily analyzes popular media to articulate how visual culture represents Blackness and Black identities. Her research is committed […]
"We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" Presentation by Wendy H. Wong, 24th January from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Human rights are one of the major innovations of the 20th century. Their emergence after World War II and global uptake promised a new world of universalized humanity in which human dignity would be protected, […]
Presentation by Nick Vincent, 7th February from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Dr. Vincent received his PhD from Northwestern University's Technology and Social Behavior program (a joint degree in computer science and communication), where he worked in the People, Space, and Algorithms Research Group. During graduate school, he was a research intern at Snap and Microsoft. Before […]
"Social Media as a Failed Free Expression Experiment" Presentation by Peter Ives, 6th March from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT The talk will argue that “free speech” controversies are increasingly unresolvable not because people have differing commitments to the principle of free speech, but because they have incompatible underlying rationales for why speech should be free. The […]