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[Recap] TiM Seminar 2022-23 “Robotic Imaginaries” – Acting Like a Robot Research Project
by Jingzhe Zhang Basic Information of the Session Title: Robotic Imaginaries Date: 23 November, 2022 Location: De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (Nes 45, 1012 KD) Format of the session: the official part of the session lasts two hours and consists of four presentations. Q&A are left to accompany drinks afterwards. Content of the Session Irene…
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Meet the Makers: Trine Friis Sørensen
Trine Friis Sørensen was a curator before she became an academic researcher, so the decision to work practice-based, first in her PhD project and later as a postdoc fellow, was an easy one. In this session, she will introduce how she conducts research with and through curatorial projects with particular focus on the…
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AI and the Accessibility Tool – Pauline Munnich
In the seminar “Social Imaginaries of Ethics and AI” we discussed and explored the ethics around AI, focusing on four positions that tend to be taken when it comes to imagining future possibilities for AI. The four positions were constructed around two axes: the axis of dystopian-utopian and the axis of pragmatic and…
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The Ethics of Ambiguous AI – Dominique Ubbels
Two weeks before TIM’s fourth session “Social imaginaries of ethics and AI”, my friends and I started to obsess over The Chat GPT, a chatbot recently launched by OpenAI. Our discussions tended towards the “dystopian-speculative” view that was one of the common attitudes towards AI discussed by the speakers Sonja Rebecca Rattay, Irina…
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Fear of the Artificial Other: A Dystopian-Speculative Approach to AI – Chris van der Vegt
In the fourth Transmission in Motion seminar on ethics and artificial intelligence (AI), we were asked to pick a one out of four positions on AI governance, divided over two axis: utopian-dystopian and dragmatic-speculative. Based on the way we positioned ourselves on the grid, we were sorted into groups to discuss our perspectives….
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[Recap] TiM Seminar 2022-23 “Social Imaginaries of Ethics and AI” – Sonja Rebecca Rattay and Irina Shklovski (Copenhagen University) and Marco Rozendaal (TuDelft)
by Jakob Henselmans 1. Note on the online environment Everybody should join the MIRO-board. There will be an interactive session at the end. 2.Very short introduction by Maaike Bleeker. 3. Sonja Rebecca Rattay – introduction to research: Design practices, ethics and praxis; how social imaginaries provide frames for how AI’s are…
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[Recap] TiM Seminar 2022-23 “Collaboration and Dissensus in the Experimental Arts and Innovation Policy” – Michael Century (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
by Job Santé During the second seminar of the Transmission in motion seminar programme Michael Century presented his recently published book Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age, In doing so he illustrated the ways in which Canadian policy-making had shaped the ways…
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[Recap] TiM Seminar 2022-23 “Media Imaginaries / Imaginary Media / Imaginations of Media” – Frank Kessler and Imar de Vries (UU)
“Imaginary Media and the Pursuit of the Impossible Dreams” by Olga Efremova The first in 2022-23 Transmission in Motion seminar series opened with a welcome from Dr. Maaike Bleeker, who introduced media history researchers from Utrecht University Dr. Frank Kessler and Dr. Imar de Vries. The first part of the seminar consisted of…
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The Potential to Die: “Do Performing Robots Dream of Sinterklaas?” A Child’s Play – Olga Efremov
The third session of TiM was a fascinating combination of three presentations united by a common desire to unravel both performative and technological aspects of robot actors and robot-like acting, and live theatrical performances that put the theory to practice. Both Simple Machines by Ugo Dehaes and NAO: Re-wired by Ulrike Quade Company…
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Robotic Ritual – Job Santé
The third session of the Transmission in Motion seminar was centred around the topic of “robotic imaginaries”. During the presentations that took part in the session, one project stood out for me, namely the NAO: Re-wired project by the Ulrike Quade Company.[1] Within this project, a so-called NAO robot was deconstructed and rewired…
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