Hello,

Torque Editions present a playful new work using AI with the news archive
at the The British Library
Sign up for the talk 11am GMT on 24th Sept
https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/events/ai-and-the-headline-archive/

This event is a launch for a new artwork that uses a kind of artificial
intelligence called recursive neural nets (RNN to synthesise
past-present-future headlines. At the event, we will talk about how
*multiplicities* of human and machine intelligences have much more
immediate positive potential than 'the singularity'. The artwork allows you
to combine your own headline predictions with the historical archives at
the British Library, to produce a weird new language plasma future
newspaper cover. It's a collaboration between Nathan Jones, Tom Schofield
and Sam Skinner. torquetorque.net

The project is called "Crash Blossoms", after instances where headlinese
produces a weird semantic ambiguity, like ""McDonald's fries the holy grail
for potato farmers"

best,

Nathan Jones
@nathan_lica

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 09:53, nathan jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Torque Editions present a playful new work using AI with the news archive
> at the The British Library
> Sign up for the talk 11am GMT on 24th Sept
> https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/events/ai-and-the-headline-archive/
>
> This event is a launch for a new artwork that uses a kind of artificial
> intelligence called recursive neural nets (RNN to synthesise
> past-present-future headlines. At the event, we will talk about how
> *multiplicities* of human and machine intelligences have much more
> immediate positive potential than 'the singularity'. The artwork allows you
> to combine your own headline predictions with the historical archives at
> the British Library, to produce a weird new language plasma future
> newspaper cover. It's a collaboration between Nathan Jones, Tom Schofield
> and Sam Skinner. torquetorque.net
>
> The project is called "Crash Blossoms", after instances where headlinese
> produces a weird semantic ambiguity, like ""McDonald's fries the holy grail
> for potato farmers"
>
> best,
>
> Nathan Jones
> @nathan_lica
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 00:07, NEW-MEDIA-CURATING automatic digest system <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Topics of the day:
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>>   1. DATA CITIES: Smart Technologies, Tracking & Human Rights
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>> Date:    Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:27:50 +0200
>> From:    Tatiana Bazzichelli <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: DATA CITIES: Smart Technologies, Tracking & Human Rights
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to invite you to the 20th conference of the Disruption
>> Network Lab.
>>
>> DATA CITIES: SMART TECHNOLOGIES, TRACKING & HUMAN RIGHTS.
>> Investigating future smart cities and how tracking & surveillance impact
>> us all. https://www.disruptionlab.org/data-cities
>>
>> We will be back at Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2,
>> 10997 Berlin from September 25 to 27, but also on streaming (live on our
>> website).
>>
>> You can find some info below, please make sure to get a ticket online to
>> reserve a seat. https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/
>>
>> ## SCHEDULE
>>
>> # PRE-EVENT: GERMAN PREMIERE
>> Thursday, September 24 - 2020
>> 19:00-22:00 – Film screening + Q&A: iHUMAN
>> iHUMAN - Film Documentary - Event in partnership with the Human Rights
>> Film Festival Berlin, at BUFA Studios, followed by a film talk with
>> Tonje Hessen Schei (Film Director, Producer and Screenwriter, NO):
>> https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/screening-ihuman
>>
>> # CONFERENCE
>> FULL PROGRAMME:
>> https://www.disruptionlab.org/data-cities#programme
>>
>> SCHEDULE:
>> # Friday, September 25 - 2020
>> 16:00 - Doors open
>> 16:40—18:00 - KEYNOTE: Reclaiming Data Cities: Fighting for the Future
>> We Really Want
>> Denis "Jaromil" Roio (Digital Social Innovation Expert, Software Artisan
>> & Ethical Hacker, IT) & Julia Kloiber (Managing Director at Superrr Lab
>> and Partner at Ashoka Germany, DE). Moderated by Daniel Irrgang
>> (Research Fellow, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, DE).
>>
>> 18:45—20:45 · PANEL: Making Cities Smart for Us: Subverting Tracking &
>> Surveillance
>> Eva Blum-Dumontet (Senior Researcher on Privacy and Social and Economics
>> Rights, UK), River Honer (Web Developer at Expedition Grundeinkommen,
>> Anti-Capitalist Tech Activist, Member of Anti Eviction Map Project,
>> US/DE), Andreas Zingerle (Media Artist, Department of Linguistic,
>> Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, AT/NO), Linda
>> Kronman (PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic
>> Studies, University of Bergen, FI/NO). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli
>> (Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE).
>>
>> # Saturday, September 26 - 2020
>> 16:00 —  Doors open
>> 16:30—18:00 - KEYNOTE: Worlds Less Travelled: Mega-Cities, AI & Critical
>> Sci-Fi
>> Liam Young (Film Director, Architect and Designer, AU/US), Tonje Hessen
>> Schei (Film Director, Producer, and Screenwriter, NO). Respondent: Anna
>> Ramskogler-Witt (Artistic Director, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin,
>> DE).  Moderated by Mauro Mondello (Investigative Journalist, IT) & Lucia
>> Conti (Communication Expert at UNIDO, Editor in Chief at Il Mitte, IT/DE).
>>
>> 18:45—20:45 - PANEL: Citizens for Digital Sovereignity: Shaping
>> Inclusive & Resilient Cities
>> Elizabeth Calderón Lüning (Associate Researcher, Weizenbaum Institute
>> for the Networked Society, Research Group Inequality & Digital
>> Sovereignty. DE), Rafael Heiber (Co-founder & CEO, Common Action Forum,
>> BR/DE), Alexandre Monnin (Head of the "Strategy and Design for the
>> Anthropocene", Master of Science at ESC Clermont Business School, FR),
>> Moderated by Fieke Jansen (PhD Candidate at the Data Justice Lab, NL/UK).
>>
>> # Sunday, September 27 - 2020
>> 14:15 - DOORS OPEN
>>
>> 14:45—15:15 - ARTIST TALK - Google Maps Hacks
>> Simon Weckert (Artist & Designer, DE)
>>
>> 15:15—17:45 - WORKSHOPS
>> Limited seats: sign-up is required for a specific workshop. Get your
>> ticket here: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/data-cities/
>>
>> Workshop 1: Smash your filter bubble!
>> with Leonardo Sanna (PhD Fellow, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia,
>> IT) and Salvatore Romano (Graduate student in Social Psychology,
>> University of Padova, IT) of the tracking.exposed project.
>>
>> Workshop 2: Visualizing Control – A Critical Mapping Workshop
>> with River Honer (Web Developer at Expedition Grundeinkommen,
>> Anti-Capitalist Tech Activist, Member of Anti Eviction Map Project,
>> US/DE). SOLD OUT!
>>
>> Workshop 3: Reusing things in the smart city
>> with: Felipe Schmidt Fonseca (Activist, Free/Open Advocate and
>> Researcher, OpenDoTT project, BR/DE).
>>
>> Workshop 4: Citizen manifesto on data cities
>> with Fieke Jansen (PhD Candidate at the Data Justice Lab, NL/UK).
>>
>> 18:30—19:30 - COLLECTIVE CLOSING
>>
>> More info:
>> https://www.disruptionlab.org/data-cities
>>
>> --
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>> Disruption Network Lab
>> http://disruptionlab.org
>> Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
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>> Date:    Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:24:16 +0100
>> From:    Matt Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Education Conferences 2020-21
>>
>> All, as part of the Routledge pedagogy series these conferences seek to
>> document and explore the recent shift to online teaching across different
>> disciplines, and more established teaching and learning practices.
>> Please share the call. Thanks.
>>
>> Teaching and Research Initiative 2020-21 is organized by Routledge and
>> AMPS with the University of Manchester/Manchester Metropolitan University,
>> UK
>>
>> Recent events across the world of academia have brought online education
>> and research into full light. As universities, schools and colleges closed
>> across the world in 2020, researchers, teachers and students scrambled to
>> adapt to a new reality. These conferences seeks to explore how we are
>> responding, what we’ve learnt, and how we are developing new teaching
>> methods.
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>> ONLINE EDUCATION: TEACHING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
>>
>> Place: Virtual
>> Dates: 21-23 April, 2021
>> Abstracts: 05 Dec, 2020  (Round One)
>> https://architecturemps.com/online-ed-conference/
>>
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>> TEACHING-LEARNING-RESEARCH. DESIGN and ENVIRONMENTS
>>
>> Place: Virtual / University of Manchester
>> Dates: 02-04 December, 2020
>> Abstracts: 05 Nov 2020 (Final)
>>
>> http://architecturemps.com/teaching-research-conference/
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> Nathan Jones
> Lecturer Fine Art (Digital Media) LICA Lancaster University
> Artistic Director at Mercy
> Editor at Torque Editions
>
> http://mercyonline.co.uk
> http://torquetorque.net
> http://alittlenathan.co.uk
>
> mob: 07877660150
> twtr: @nathmercy
>
> also follow @syn_dro_me
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Nathan Jones
Lecturer Fine Art (Digital Media) LICA Lancaster University
Artistic Director at Mercy
Editor at Torque Editions

http://mercyonline.co.uk
http://torquetorque.net
http://alittlenathan.co.uk

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