Jonathan Beller is a Professor of Humanities & Media Studies at the Pratt Institute. One of the foremost theorists of the visual turn and the attention economy; works on the history of cinema and the way in which the screen-image has altered all aspects of social life; books and edited volumes include: The Cinematic Mode […]
Book Conversation: Discriminating Data by Wendy Chun In dialogue with Yuk Hui Thu 10 March 2022, 5pm PST / Fri 11 March 2022, 9am HKT Online Event: Register to join via Zoom Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/304BhrtRH In this event, Wendy Chun will discuss her latest book Discriminating Data (2021, MIT Press) in conversation with Yuk Hui. In Discriminating Data, Chun reveals […]
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 deals with questions of legal philosophy. In 2017 she was appointed by the Spanish government to the […]
The value of ambiguity. Data, Proxies and the limits of the computable via YouTube Stream with Mireille Hildebrandt & Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, moderated by Felix Stalder Mireille Hildebrandt: The politics of ambiguity and the issue of proxies In my talk, I will argue that what matters is not computable. However, it can be made […]
Tung-Hui Hu is associate professor at the University of Michigan in the department of English Language and Literature. He is the author of three books of poetry, The Book of Motion (2003), Mine (2007), and Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a chapbook, On the Kepel Fruit (Albion Books, 2017), and a study of digital culture, A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015), which was described by The New […]
Dr Dylan Mulvin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, where he also serves as Programme Director for the MSc Media and Communications. Dr Mulvin is a historian of media and technology. Drawing on methods from media studies, Science and Technology Studies, gender studies, and disability studies, Dr Mulvin investigates […]
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 […]