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Abstracts due 5 February
Call for Papers: Artificial Creativity
Transformations: Journal of Media, Culture and Technology
New journal article | Erin Cory
Street Solidarity: A Report on Lebanon’s ‘October Revolution’
Field – A journal of socially-engaged art criticism
Virtual Conference | 19–20 November 2020
Artificial Creativity
The Artificial Creativity conference aims to stir a discussion about the cultural, societal and ethical aspects of artworks featuring A.I. or robots engaged in creative production.
Podcast | On Sex, Intimacy and Robots
In this episode, we talk about sex, intimacy and robots. The basis of the discussion are so-called Real Dolls, which are hyper-realistic sex dolls. Professor Jeffrey Bardzell has studied how people describe their interactions with these dolls and their motivations for using them. This research can help us understand how to design for intimacy, sexuality and self-care. With scholars Bojana Romic and Jeffrey Bardzell.
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Vinyl release party and photo exhibition | 6 March
Too Cute to Puke
Come join us to celebrate the history and future of the strictly female-fronted music/dance club Too Cute to Puke!
Medea Talks | Video
Screening the Nordic City: The Politics of Place and Space in Contemporary Crime Series
With Robert A. Saunders, professor at State University of New York.
Medea Talks | Video
Twenty Years Of Radical Open Access – What’s Next?
With Gary Hall, Professor of Media in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at Coventry University, UK.
Medea Talks | Video
Respecognize: Negotiating Ethnic Notions, Cultural Identity, and Unconscious Bias
With Moncell Durden, dance educator, choreographer, ethnographer, and Assistant Professor of Practice at USC’s Glorya Kaufman International School of Dance.
Medea Talks | Amanda Lagerkvist | Video
Existential media studies: Towards ‘co-existers’ in shared terrains of digital-human vulnerability and automation
With Amanda Lagerkvist, researcher in existential media studies and associate professor at Uppsala University.
Medea Talks | Nathan Larson | Video
Music and Sound Art: Problematic Distinctions + New Approaches
With musician, film score composer and author Nathan Larson. In this talk, Nathan Larson will propose a new approach to making use of sound/music as a therapeutic tool for personal and communal growth.
Medea Talks | Kate Wright | Video
Who’s Reporting Africa Now?
Which stories are told about Africa, and by whom? Welcome to a Medea Talks lecture with Kate Wright who will talk about the relationship between NGOs and traditional news media.
Medea Talks | Silvana Bahia | Video
Communication, Narratives and Inventiveness by Afro-Brazilian women in Brazil
With Silvana Bahia, coordinator of PretaLab – a collective initiative that mobilizes Afro-Brazilian and Native-Brazilian women to engage with and develop technology against social inequalities and racism.
Film screening | September 23
Dusty Groove: The Sound of Transition
A new documentary about vinyl lovers, by Danielle Beverly. Sign up now!
Opinion
Artificial Intelligence — An Oxymoron?
There’s an uncritical belief in what algorithms are capable of. We need to critically study the algorithmically processed data streams that make up the foundation of AI.
Medea Talks | Video is to be published
Remaking the Heavens and the Earth: Narratives Justifying Scientific Interventions
With David Nye, author of The Environmental Humanities and professor emeritus at the University of Southern Denmark.
Lecture | Pelle Ehn
Design, Democracy and Participation: Exploring the Scandinavian Participatory Design Tradition
What has it meant to be a collective designer during the last 100 years?
New Article | Infrastructuring Urban Commons Over Time
The participatory design/co-design community has increasingly been interested in notions of commons and commoning. This article by Anna Seravalli explores “urban commoning” based on two cases: a makerspace and a waste-handling service in Malmö, Sweden. How do you create urban commons that are sustainable in the long run?
Medea Talks | Daniela Rosner
Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
With Daniela Rosner, author of Critical Fabulations and assistant professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington
Medea Talks | Video now online!
Perspectives and Collective Future-Making
With Nick Montfort, poet and professor of digital media at MIT
Medea Talks | Video available on request
Art, media, and urban dynamics in revolutionary cities. The case of Tahrir square, Cairo
With Marwa Dabaieh, architect and researcher at the department of Urban Studies, Malmö University.
Medea Talks | Video
The End of Man: Species Vulnerability in the Anthropocene
With Joanna Zylinska, artist, curator and Professor of New Media at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Online publication
The New Human
Participants of the New Human symposium were invited to reflect on what it’s like to be human in the Anthropocene epoch. This is the result:
The New Human(s): Colossal Humble Creatures Situated on the Earth
Sverre Raffnsøe further develops the talk given by him at the symposium, outlining the contours of the epoch of the Anthropocene as well as discussing the challenges this epoch presents for the arts.
The Archival Body: Re-enactments, affective doubling and surrogacy
Susan Kozel explores the relationships between the body, memory practices, and materiality.
Metal Memos
Martin Farran-Lee contributes with this six-image series about a world that is getting progressively harder to understand.
Can the driverless car be ethically programmed?
Niclas N. Hundahl argues that engineers need to team up with philosophers and cultural scholars to program the algorithms.
Corpus Delicti: A Poetic Provocation of the Posthuman
Viktoria Kalonaityte: “I am no one’s future. Certainly not yours.”
Medea Talks | December 7
Exploring the Active and Interventionist Humanities
With Patrik Svensson, visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at UCLA, and former Director of HUMlab at Umeå University.
Video is now online | Medea Talks
Framing Wonder: A Mission for Design
With Ann Light, Professor of Design and Creative Technology
Video is now online! | Medea Talks
Is There Any Point To Political Art in the 21st Century?
With Harry Giles, Writer and Poet
Researcher network:
Collaborative Future Making
“If we don’t want the political visions to be dominated by populist dreams or outdated economical-political models, we need to articulate and debate alternative futures. This is what the Collaborative Future Making network sets out to do, through co-design and participatory processes.”
Video is now online! | Medea Talks
Where is “the Human” in Digital Health Technology?
With Kirsten Ostherr, Medical Futures Lab
Video is now online!
What will we mean by privacy in the future?
With Marju Lauristin, on “EU Data Protection Policy in the Digital Environment”
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