Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to the next session of the POEM public lecture series hosted by the H2020 Innovative Training Network Participatory Memory Practices (POEM) at the University of Glasgow.
Tue 26th March 2019 | 09:30-10:30 am
Location: Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow, U.K.
The algorithmic past: The third way of memory
POEM public lecture by Prof Dr Andrew Hoskins (Glasgow University)
https://www.poem-horizon.eu/public-talk-the-algorithmic-past-the-third-way-of-memory/
About this event
A paradoxically connected but atomised media ecology, the living archive of social media - a constantly evolving record of the everyday - defies traditional categories and certainties of media provenance, ownership, duration and decay.
User-generated needs and the embrace of the digital values of openness appear to liberate archives from the bounds of space and from organisations and elites, and yet the past is also caught up in the algorithmic narrowing of information, knowledge, and life. The haste for the former (the digitization of everything) seems at the expense of the latter (comprehension of the risks related to ownership, use, access, costs and finitude of digital data).
This presentation asks what are the prospects for human remembering and forgetting under these conditions. To this end, I explore the long implicit binary or separation between accounts of roughly human (cognitive) and exteriorised (social, cultural, collective) memory. The former (in the head) is seen as mostly active, whereas the latter (in the wild) never 'did anything to itself' in that it was seen as reliant on human agents to make it active. I ask: do algorithms and so-called artificial intelligence (AI) offer memory a 'third way', beyond its established domains (in the head, and in the wild)?
Kind regards,
Samantha Lutz
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Samantha Lutz, M.A.
University of Hamburg
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Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
POEM Project Management
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*This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 764859.
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