At long last the special issue of AI & Society (Ways of Machine Seeing) has been published,
AI & SOCIETY | Volume 36, issue 4
https://link.springer.com/journal/146/volumes-and-issues/36-4.
Incl. our intro (Mitra Azar, Geoff Cox, Leo Impett) and contributors by Benjamin Bratton, Claudio Celis Bueno & María Jesús Schultz Abarca, Iain Emsley, Daniel Chávez Heras & Tobias Blanke, Nicolas Malevé, Lev Manovich, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Perle Møhl, Fabian Offert & Peter Bell, Trevor Paglen & Kate Crawford, Jussi Parikka & Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Luciana Parisi, Matteo Pasquinellli & Vladan Joler, Gabriel Pereira & Bruno Moreschi, Carloalberto Treccani, Rebecca Uliasz, Manuel van der Veen.
https://centreforthestudyof.net/?p=6078 +
https://www.academia.edu/64880704/AI_and_Society_Special_Issue_all_papers_Ways_of_Machine_Seeing_Azar_Cox_Impett_eds
CSNI invites applications for a full time, funded PhD commencing in January 2022 or ASAP. We are interested in projects that examine the potential of networked performance. https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/?p=6027
DARC/Aarhus and CSNI/LSBU are organising a research workshop - Rendering Research - to collapse the traditional workflows of academic publishing and draw more closely together work-in-progress and feedback, writing and print production - in collab w/ transmediale & ERG, School of Graphic Research, to be held in Brussels in January 2022. Deadline for submissions: 14 Nov, see https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/?p=5967
Join us on 8th Sept at 17.00 (UK time) for Syed Mustafa Ali's keynote "Decolonising Computing (?)" https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/?p=5566 - all welcome!
As part of Writing Machine Collective in Hong Kong, we're organizing a free online symposium:"Knowledge Asymmetries in the Age of #Machine #Learning". Great line-up with Lauren Lee McCarthy, Btihaj Ajana, Beatrice Fazi, Adrian Weller and Frank Pasquale. Very much looking forward to it. See/register:http://www.writingmachine-collective.net/.
The first one is on next Tue - You Can Say “Talk to Me” 你可以說「告訴我」by Lauren Lee McCarthy (Artist and Associate Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts), the session is moderated by Winnie Soon (Artist-researcher and Associate Professor at Aarhus University)