Date & time
Friday, January 19, 2024 –
Friday, March 1, 2024
11 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Friday, March 1, 2024
11 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Conferences & lectures
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Making Sense of Algorithms Virtual Lecture Series
Speaker(s)
Davide Panagia (UCLA), Tarini Bedi (University of Illinois - Chicago), Adrian Mackenzie (Australian National University), Chris Salter (Zurich University of the Arts), Marc-André Cossette (Hexagram), and Caroline A. Jones (MIT)
Cost
This event is free
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Online
Image from the Collideroscope series (2022) by Erik Adigard. http://m-a-d.com
Contemporary existence is undergoing radical transformation as a function of advances in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and automation. This lecture series seeks to problematize the multiple ways in which digitization has taken command.
The speakers will do so by focussing attention on the complex interaction between sentient subjects and “the algorithmic optic.” Topics include the political ontology of algorithms, platform labour, sensing global average temperatures, performing AI, and sensing symbiontics. “Making Sense of Algorithms” aims to lay the foundations for the articulation of a new common sense.
All lectures and ensuing discussions will take place live on Zoom at the designated hour and last approximately 100 minutes. Please click on the title in the poster to register for each lecture. To view the presenters’ bios and the abstracts for their talks please visit https://centreforsensorystudies.org/events-and-activities
This virtual lecture series is curated by David Howes. It is sponsored by the Centre for Sensory Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC).
LECTURES
Friday, January 19:
After Free Speech: #datapolitik and the Failures of Liberalism
Speaker: Davide Panagia is a professor & chair of Political Science at UCLA.
Friday, February 2:
The Fugitive Hands and Feet in Algorithmic Work
Speaker: Tarini Bedi is a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Thursday, February 8
Forcings and Felt-Virtualities: Do Climate Models Have Affects?
Speaker: Adrian Mackenzie is a professor at Australian National University.
Thursday, February 22
Performing AI: Labor and Complexity on the Contemporary Stage
Speakers: Chris Salter, Immersive Arts Space; Marc-André Cossette, Concordia
Friday, March 1
Symbiontics, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Earthlings
Speaker: Caroline A. Jones is a full professor at MIT, teaching in the History, Theory, Criticism section of the Department of Architecture.