BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds
Aims to investigate the experiential range of encounters with AI.
Queering AI
October 2 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Join us for the WASP-HS Community Reference Meeting (CRM) Queering AI as we delve into a transdisciplinary dialogue focusing on queer perspectives on AI developments, implementations, and discourse. Queer theory offers valuable insights by shedding light on often overlooked perspectives, particularly those at the margins, and exposing […]
Barnen, skärmarna och existensen
Under 2024 har Folkhälsomyndigheten och Mediemyndigheten tagit fram en rapport om sambanden mellan digital medieanvändning och hälsa bland barn och unga. Men hur är det egentligen med de existentiella perspektiven på området? Under detta webbinarium diskuteras rapportens resultat kort i relation till fältet för existentiell hälsa, samt hur en existentiell lins rent generellt kan anläggas […]
Relational Technologies – Technological Relations
The concluding event of the BioMe research project will take place in early 2025. The event will take the form of an interdisciplinary assembly where multiple types of expertise from academia, arts, humanities, information sciences and others will reflect on and deepen insights into the issues raised throughout the course of our project. At this […]
Assistive AI, Disability and Norms of Being Human
Explore how and if dis/ability plays into how AI is developing
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 […]
