The Mediated Planet: Claiming Data for Environmental SDGs
Explores the global environment as emerging through environmental data
Assistive AI, Disability and Norms of Being Human
Explore how and if dis/ability plays into how AI is developing
Relational Technologies. In Search of the Self Across Datafied Lifeworlds
“Relational Technologies. In Search of the Self Across Datafied Lifeworlds” is the title of the book to be published in 2025 via Bloomsbury’s Thinking Media Series. Edited by Amanda Lagerkvist and Jacek Smolicki, the book serves as a final report of the BioMe project. It brings together scholars, thinkers and artists to address burning questions […]
DIGSUM, Centre for Digital Social Research
On November 29, prof. Amanda Lagerkvist will give a talk at DIGSUM, Centre for Digital Social Research. Her talk is entitled “Parsing the AI Apocalypse: From Existential Risk to Existential Media.” More info on https://www.digsum.org
20 years of Sound Environments
On November 19, Jacek Smolicki will give a talk at a one-day conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Sound Environment Center at Lund University. He will speak about the concept and practice of transversal listening as a creative and critical mode of connecting with multiple histories, agencies and scales characterizing our shared environments. The […]
AI as Existential Media: Biometrics, Automation and the Human Condition
On November 19, prof. Amanda Lagerkvist will give a talk at the WASP-HS conference AI for Humanity and Society. Entitled ”AI as Existential Media” the talk will move beyond technocratic-entrepreneurial vision and engineering solutionism, and offer a serious existential perspective on the vulnerabilities and contingencies of being human in a world of advanced technologies. Register […]
AI for Humanity & Society
What do you do if you enter into a room in which the conversation about something important—to you as a human being and as a scholar—has already begun? And what do you do when central debates about powerful technology have started somewhere else than where your knowledge and experience are based? On November 19, Prof. […]
Alliances and commonalities
Between October 17 and 19, Jacek Smolicki will present two soundwalks during Alliances and Commonalities 2024, Stockholm University of the Arts’ biannual international artistic research conference. He will also participate in a panel discussion dedicated to the art of walking. The 2024 iteration of Alliances and Commonalities will be live at SKH’s premises from 17–19 […]
Call for Papers: AI and Memory Special Collection
Submit to the special collection of Memory, Mind and Media (Cambridge University Press) on AI and Memory. Co-edited by Andrew Hoskins, Anthony Downey and Amanda Lagerkvist. We are proud to announce the launch of the first Special Journal Collection on AI and MEMORY with Andrew Hoskins’ agenda setting article, AI and Memory. We now welcome […]
