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1. At the Brink: Electronic Literature, Technology, and the Peripheral Imagination

   Periods of rapid technological change also redraw our sense of cultural and geographical periphery. Routes of transport and travel, communications infrastructures, and networks of cultural production extend, transform, and redirect the perimeters of our personal and collective imagination. In this lecture I will examine how Ireland’s location at the geographical margin of Europe has also rendered it a focal point of technological experimentation and exchange, and has closely entwined it with the story of electronic literature. I propose that the peripheral imagination informing this relationship can also encourage the kind of cultural dissent needed to tackle the consequences of unchecked technological ambition to the fragile environments of the Anthropocene.

   Anne Karhio - 08.11.2019 - 10:52

2. Unseen Hands: On the Gendered Design of Virtual Assistants and the Limits of Creative AI

   Unlike other forms of artificial intelligence and machine learning that are used for creative production, female-presenting virtual assistants such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, and Google Assistant are not designed to be collaborators nor content producers, but rather, to serve as mouthpieces and platforms for others' pre-designated scripts to be performed. This talk examines the gendered design and creative limitations of AI virtual assistants as part of a growing body of studies in the systemic biases of technological design

   Scott Rettberg - 29.05.2021 - 15:12

3. Subject-making and aesthetics of data practices

   Subject-making is profoundly aesthetic. In the current moment, of data-intensive cultures and identity wars, the subjects that are made stem from machine learning techniques that engage aesthetics differently, nonetheless profoundly. My talk will focus on subjects of data abstractions, poetics of idealisation and aesthetic recognition.
    

   Scott Rettberg - 29.05.2021 - 15:17

4. The Future of XR - Keynote address

   The Future of XR - Keynote address

   Caitlin Fisher - 28.07.2023 - 23:02

5. Stories for the Future

   Stories for the Future

   Caitlin Fisher - 28.07.2023 - 23:04

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