#5 Critical AI Seminar Series: Computing taste
May 15 from 4 to 5:30 PM (CEST): Invited talk by Nick Seaver (Tufts University) – Online Nick Seaver is an Assistant Professor in the department of Anthropology at Tufts University and the Director of the program Science, Technology and Society. Generally his work is centred on the question of howREAD MORE
#4 Critical AI Seminar Series: On the Power Dynamics and Labour Conditions on ML Data Production
March 20 from 4-5:30 PM CEST: Invited talk by Milagros Miceli (Weizenbaum-Institut) and Julian Posada (Yale University) – Online Milagros Miceli is a sociologist and computer scientist leading the Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics research group at the Weizenbaum-Institut for the Networked Society in Berlin. Her research explores the production of ground-truth data for machine learning,READ MORE
#3 Critical AI Seminar Series: Exploring the Politics of Synthetic Data
January 24: Invited talk by Benjamin Jacobsen (Durham University) – Online Benjamin Jacobsen is a lecturer in Sociology at University of York. In addition, Benjamin is an editorial board member on the journal The Sociological Review and a Visiting Fellow in the Algorithmic Societies Project at DurhamREAD MORE
#2 Critical AI Seminar Series: The Calculation of Meaning
December 13 from 5-6:30 PM CEST: Invited talk by Mercedes Bunz (Kings College London) – Online Mercedes Bunz is a Professor of Digital Culture and Society and the Deputy Head of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. She is the co-founder of the CreativeREAD MORE
#1 Critical AI Seminar Series: What is Critical AI Studies and where is it heading?
October 25 from 5-7 PM CEST: Invited talk by Lauren M. E. Goodlad (Rutgers University) and Rita Raley (University of California, Santa Barbara) – Online Lauren M. E. Goodlad is a distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the chair of a new interdisciplinary initiativeREAD MORE
Critical AI Seminar Series
Critical AI studies is an interdisciplinary ‘field in formation’ (Raley and Rhee, 2023), which aims to better understand, critique and provide alternatives to the current regimes of Artificial Intelligence (AI) development and implementations – from dataset production to model development, evaluation and deployment as wellREAD MORE
Conference & launch of Digital Methods Platform
Everyone is warmly invited to attend the final conference and launch event of the European Erasmus+ project DiMPAH: Digital Methods Platform for the Arts and Humanities. The project partners developed a set of courses on digital methods and computational skills specifically aimed at arts and humanitiesREAD MORE
Salon: Sinergia Narratives project
Join us for the CREATE Salon on 8 June 2023, 15:00-17:00h at the Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48 Amsterdam. This session will delve into the Sinergia Narratives-project and its relationship to museum exhibition design strategies for AV collections. We’re excited to feature presentations from Yuchen Yang, PhDREAD MORE
Salon: Cultural Evolution
We are pleased to welcome you to our upcoming CREATE Salon on Cultural Evolution. Date: Thursday, 26th January, 2023 Time: 15:00 – 17:00 CET Chair: Melvin Wevers | Assistant Professor Urban History and Digital Methods, University of Amsterdam Registration and location details for the event can be found here.READ MORE
Salon: Computational Creativity
We are pleased to welcome you to our upcoming CREATE Salon on Computational Creativity. Date: Wednesday, 23rd November, 2022 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Chair: Fabian Moss | Research Fellow in Cultural Analytics, DSC and CREATE, University of Amsterdam. Registration details for the event can be found here. Creativity hasREAD MORE