In this President's Faculty Lecture, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (SFU's Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media) will discuss themes from her forthcoming book Discriminating Data about how big data and predictive machine learning currently encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage (MIT Press). The lecture is free with registration, which you can sign up for here. This […]
Join Grace Kyungwon Hong (UCLA), Lisa Nakamura (UMich) and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (SFU) for a discussion on anti-Asian sentiment before Covid-19. As many media accounts have recounted, Stop AAPI Hate reported that anti-Asian violence soared during the first wave of the 2020 COVID19 pandemic. From mid-March 2020 to the end of February 2021, 3,795 […]
Democracy’s Digital Dilemma Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's upcoming book, Discriminating Data, delves into how social media platforms are designed to make us hate one another across political, racial, and class lines. She will speak at the Forum on how the internet and algorithms have undermined democracy and how they could be used in the […]
Nobel Conference 57 - Big Data REvolution Wendy presents at the Nobel Conference on Beyond Verification. How do we reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation? What makes any piece of info true? Fact checking alone is inadequate to such a task. Wendy Chun is working with a deeply multidisciplinary team of researchers that includes everyone […]
1-2.30pm EST / 10-11.30am PST Register here for the launch event for this highly anticipated event. News websites have financial incentives to spread disinformation, in order to increase their online traffic and, ultimately, their advertising revenue. Meanwhile, the dissemination of disinformation has disruptive and impactful consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a recent example. By disrupting […]
Zack McCune presents 'Conflict, Consensus, and Creativity: Wikipedia at 20'. Zack McCune is Director of Brand at the Wikimedia Foundation. He draws on a background in sociology and creative marketing. As a Master's student at the University of Cambridge, he authored the first academic study of Instagram. McCune directed social media for MasterCard and Mountain […]
Wendy will be taking part in a panel discussion based on visual artist Ben Grosser's show Software For Less, which you can see more about here. The event will aim to discuss software as culture, the politics of interface, and the power (im)balance between user and corporation within today’s digital technologies and social media platforms. […]
Wendy will be giving the keynote address at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies 'Critical Borders: Radical (Re)visions of AI' Conference. The aim of this conference is to critically interrogate issues of bordering in artificial intelligence (AI). This conference examines both how AI operates […]
Iginio Gagliardone is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Associate Research Fellow in New Media and Human Rights in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), University of Oxford. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has […]
About the Gray Area Festival 2021: Join us for our annual survey of culture through the lens of creative practice with artist presentations, conversations, workshops, and an exhibition — now freely accessible online around the world. How do we negotiate the balance between our individual freedom and communal dependencies; and what practical reality can we […]
Laura Marks works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus, and on small-footprint media. Her most recent books are Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image (MIT, 2015) and Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (MIT, 2010). She programs experimental media for venues around the world. As Grant Strate […]
Alissa Antle is an innovator and scholar, whose research pushes the boundaries of computation to augment the ways we think and learn. As a designer and builder of interactive technologies, her goal is to explore the ways in which these innovations can improve, augment, and support children’s cognitive and emotional development. Her interactive systems have […]