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SUMMARY:DDI Speaker Series: Liz Barry\, Metagov
DESCRIPTION:Joining us at the Digital Democracies Lab for the next Speaker Series session is Liz Barry from Metagov. \nLiz Barry is the Executive Director of Metagov. Before joining Metagov\, she served as Head of Partnerships at The Computational Democracy Project\, the 501(c)3 organization she established with the creators of the Polis technology to steward its open source code and methods. Liz works with facilitators\, social movements\, civil society organizations\, journalists\, indigenous nations\, democratic governments both young and old\, and peacebuilders to implement “listening at scale.” The collaboration began when her presence at Taiwan’s 2014 Sunflower Revolution and subsequent relationship with g0v led to her writing up the first coverage of vTaiwan in the west\, in the 2016 piece for Civicist titled “vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy\,” now republished by Taiwan’s government.\nMetagov is a community of research and practice gathered around the mission to cultivate tools\, practices\, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age. \nIf you’d like to attend\, please send us an email at ddi_comms@sfu.ca\, and we’ll share the attendee details with you.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-speaker-series-liz-barry-metagov/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Theatre Performance: (Machine) Learning to be
DESCRIPTION:From an international collaboration spanning 9 universities\, 50+ researchers\, and 15 artists\, comes a multimedia performance experience that engages with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and their impacts. (Machine) Learning To Be explores the many faces of AI\, its dangers\, and possibilities for our communities. Engage with the performance on May 16th and 17th at Progress Lab 1422 and online\, as you take part in a conversation around the possibilities and impacts of AI on the human body and society. (Machine) Learning To Be uses a hybrid performance model\, which means audiences can join in both online and in-person.  \nThe Vancouver performances (May 16-17) are co-produced by the Data Fluencies Theatre Project and Theatre Conspiracy and developed with support from the Data Fluencies Project through the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University. The performance had a developmental workshop with public sharing at Brown University (August 2024)\, produced in collaboration with Brown Arts Institute as part of the inaugural Brown Arts IGNITE Series. \nThe live online performance is powered by CultureHub Broadcaster.  \nFor free tickets to the online performance\, please register here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/machine-learning-to-be-online-experience.   \nDates & Shows: \nMay 16\, Friday | 6 PM  \nMay 16\, Friday | 8 PM  \nMay 17\, Saturday | 8 PM \n  \nDuration: 1 Hour \n  \nTickets \nSpecial Pricing: Pay What You Can \n  \nVenue: Progress Lab 1422 & online
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/theatre-performance-machine-learning-to-be/
LOCATION:Progress Lab 1422\, 1422 William St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V5L 2P7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Data Fluencies: Tributaries
DESCRIPTION:Featuring artists Lai Yi Ohlsen\, Lani Asunción\, Jazsalyn\, Kristoffer Ørum\, Caroline Sinders\, and Roopa Vasudevan\, with experimental research by the Night School for Data Fluencies\, DATA/FFECT\, hannah holtzclaw\, and Data Fluencies Pedagogies. \n  \nThe second of three thematically connected shows taking place across North America this spring and summer\, this exhibition at Or Gallery investigates art’s potential for reimagining our often narrow understandings of data and machine learning and advocating for the digital futures we want. Using the river tributary as a conceptual starting point\, the exhibition invites you to explore how our current understandings of data and technology can become a site for broader\, community-centred discussions beyond the academy.  \n  \nData Fluencies: Tributaries features the diverse work of six contemporary artists\, alongside experimental research supported by the Data Fluencies Project\, based out of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University. Together\, the artists and researchers featured here offer us ways to (re)consider our relationships with the data that surrounds and drives our everyday lives—and perhaps find new routes to agency once we are able to do so. \n  \nThe Data Fluencies exhibitions are organized by Roopa Vasudevan\, a co-PI on the Data Fluencies Project. Visual identity by PROPS SUPPLY. \n  \nDates & Shows: May 29 – July 19  \nOpen hours Wednesday – Saturday\, 12–5 PM \nOpening Reception: 29 May\, 5 – 8 PM  \nPublic Curatorial Tour: 31 May\, 2 PM \nVenue: Or Gallery\, 236 Pender St East\, Vancouver\, BC
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/data-fluencies-tributaries/
LOCATION:Or Gallery\, 236 E Pender St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A 1T7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Author Meets Critics: Dr. Susan Erikson's Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join in for an electric conversation with Dr. Susan Erikson\, an SFU Distinguished Professor\, who studies highly complex political economies that shape human health. Her new book\, Investable! When Pandemic Risk meets Speculative Finance – A Cautionary Tale (MIT Press\, 2025)\, which she traveled over 420\,000 research kilometres to write\, is about the financialization of global health and capitalist speculation repurposed as save-the-world innovation. \nDr. Erikson will be in conversation with Anke Kessler and Iveoma Udevi-Aruevoru in an open session about her work\, research\, and the story behind Investable! The book will be available to buy at the venue courtesy of Cross and Crows. \nRefreshments and snacks will be served at this downtown venue. \nThis event is hosted with the support of the Digital Democracies Institute\, the School of International Studies\, and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. \n  \nAbout Investable! \nIn a world increasingly defined by crisis\, bankers behind the scenes turn catastrophes into financial securities that can be bought and sold. Offering new insights into how the excesses of capitalism shape emergency preparedness\, Investable! is an ethnography of the World Bank bonds designed to solve health funding shortfalls by getting international investors to gamble on future crises. Erikson\, who traveled over 420\,000 kilometres conducting research for the book\, takes readers from West African roads to Wall Street to Boston data modeling firms to tell the stories of the people\, the special interests\, and the logics of pandemic bonds. Written for a smart general audience concerned about capitalism’s effect on human health\, Investable! will appeal to people working in global development\, health care and data modeling\, international affairs\, and anyone who wants to better understand how the worlds of high finance shape how we care for one another.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/author-meets-critics-dr-susan-eriksons-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Teck Gallery\, SFU Harbour Centre\, 515 W Hastings St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6B 1A1\, Canada
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