Beyond Ethical Tech: Understanding the Sociocultural History of Our Technological Defaults Before we can talk about science policy issues, we need to talk about trust. How can we make sure science and its applications serve every community? Register to see the #SEPS2022 keynote with Wendy Chun on Saturday, April 9: http://seps2022.com.
Jason Edward Lewis is Full Professor of Design and Computation Arts. He is a digital media artist, poet and software designer. He founded Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media, where he directs research/ creation projects using virtual environments to assist Aboriginal communities in preserving, interpreting and communicating cultural histories, devising new means of creating and reading […]
Caroline Running Wolf (Crow Nation), nee Old Coyote, is an enrolled member of the Apsáalooke Nation (Crow) in Montana, with a Swabian (German) mother and also Pikuni, Oglala, and Ho-Chunk heritage. As the daughter of nomadic parents, she grew up between USA, Canada, and Germany. Thanks to her genuine interest in people and their stories, […]
Reshaping our Digital Interactions: Subjectivity in the Post-Cinema Age Colloque en traduction simultanée anglais / français | Simultaneous French / English translation available at symposium ENQUÊTES SUR LA SURVEILLANCE ET LES LOGIQUES ALGORITHMIQUES, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Keynote), Antonio Somaini, Félix Tréguer À propos de cet évènement REMODELER NOS INTERACTIONS NUMERIQUES : La subjectivité à […]
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Giorgia Aiello Event is in English Wendy Hui Kyong Chun est l’une des plus importantes théoriciennes de la digitalité, de la programmation, du contrôle algorithmique, de l’utilisation des big data et des plateformes, reconnue internationalement mais encore très peu traduite en français. Elle dirige le Digital Democracies Institute at Simon […]
Lorena Jaume-Palasí - Normative solutionism: Commonalities and frictions between European law and algorithmic systems Rescheduled from March 16 Lorena Jaume-Palasí is the founder of The Ethical Tech Society, a non-profit organization researching processes of automation and digitization with regards to their social relevance. Lorena researches the ethics of digitization and automation. In this context, she also […]
Streaming to transgress: the racial politics of reactionary YouTubers and their audiences Cindy Ma is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute doing work on the discourse of white racial resentment, with a focus on YouTube personalities and their audiences. Her research examines the interactions between online ecosystems, political discourse, and racial inequity. Prior […]
Sean Cubitt is a Professor of Screen Studies, Culture and Communication, at the University of Melbourne. 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 […]
Eleanor Drage is a Christina Gaw Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Gender Studies and a member of the Gender & Technology Research Project team at the University of Cambridge. Her publications focus on how humanity defines and constitutes itself both through unstable socio-cultural processes such as race and gender and through fallible technological […]
Matthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Goldsmiths London. With Usman Haque, he is co-author of 'Urban Versioning System v1.0' (ALNY) and with Andrew Goffey, of ‘Evil Media’ (MIT), Editor of 'Software Studies, a lexicon' (MIT) and co-editor of the journal Computational Culture. He is involved in a number of projects […]
Debora Nozza, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bocconi University and member of an NLP group in Milan, will be joining us for an in-person presentation with a Q & A. She'll be, in part, talking about this project: The interdisciplinary MONICA project will create a digital barometer of Italians’ attitudes towards the government measures implemented in […]
Members of the Digital Democracies Institute will attend a one-day retreat at SFU downtown from 10-4. More details TBD.