We invite you to attend the second session of the Digital Democracies Speaker Spring Series featuring Adrian Ivakhiv (Simon Fraser University). Ecologies of the Multipolar Information Disorder: On Recent Elections, Current Wars, and Climate Disasters to Come Bio: Born to World War Two refugee parents from Ukraine, Adrian Ivakhiv grew up in Toronto, Canada. From […]
Abstract: Today more than ever, we need the power to build new worlds. Video games are exceptional tools for worldbuilding because every video game itself is a world. Yet, in video games and other media forms, worldbuilding is still commonly understood as an expression of storytelling. A queer reading of video games shows us that worldbuilding […]
You are invited to join the third session of the Digital Democracies Speaker Spring Speaker Series, featuring Reem Hilu (Washington University in St.Luis). The Intimate Life of Computers: A Feminist Perspective on the History of Home Computing The Intimate Life of Computers offers a feminist intervention in the history of personal computing by discussing the influence […]
Joining us at the Digital Democracies Lab for the next Speaker Series session is Liz Barry from Metagov. Liz 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]