Events

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 […]

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) […]

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, […]

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The SFU School of Communication's Book and Speaker Series is a space in which the School engages with recently published books by faculty and other members of the community. Experience […]

Karrmen Crey is Sto:lo and a member of the Cheam Band. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, where her research examines the rise of Indigenous media […]

Wendy is giving a talk at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute on her new book, Discriminating Data. The talk would be part of their Digital Humanities & Media Studies initiative’s […]

Please join us for a book launch and talk for Discriminating Data (MIT Press) by Wendy Chun (Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Simon Fraser University). Respondent: Ganaele Langlois […]

Join Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy Research Director, Sonja Solomun for a discussion with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun about her newly published book Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the […]

Dr Dara Kelly is from the Leq’á:mel First Nation, part of the Stó:lō Coast Salish. She is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Business at the Beedie School of Business, SFU. […]

DSI & DISCO Network Book Talk | "Discriminating Data" with Wendy Chun in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura Register for the event here. In "Discriminating Data," Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default […]

In her book ‘Discriminating Data‘ (2021), Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal — not an error — within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Hito Steyerl and Wendy Chun will discuss how can people release themselves from the […]