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Sasha Costanza-Chock - Design Justice: Community-led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock will present an overview of their new book Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, published by the MIT Press in 2020. The book is an…

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André Brock - Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures

This presentation is a critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS), reorienting Western technoculture’s practices of “race-ass-technology”…

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Sarah Myers West - Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race and Power in Artificial Intelligence

The artificial intelligence industry is in the midst of a crisis in diversity and inclusion: while the representation of women in computer science recently fell below levels in the 1960s, inclusion…

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Oulimata Gueye - Non-Aligned Utopias Lecture and Panel

New technologies and the soaring accessibility of media production in recent decades have allowed African countries to challenge their place on the cultural world scene. Critic and curator Oulimata…

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Bill Campbell - Astral Traveling: Exploring Afro Past, Present, and Futures

The School of Literature, Media, and Communication and the Georgia Tech Library will host science fiction author and publisher Bill Campbell at Georgia Tech on Tuesday, February 12, 2019. Bill…

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Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir, Mark Wilson - Engaging Animals

Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson have been collaborating since 2001. Their work, characteristically rooted in the north, explores issues of history, culture and the…

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Down Here There Are No Shooting Stars - Basim Magdy

A screening and conversation with Basim Magdy, an artist who will present and discuss some of his short films exploring spaces and places—both real and imagined—from different parts of…

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Bolivian Indigenous Media and the Protection of the Forest - Iván Sanjinés

Screening of The Cry of the Forest (2008), Bolivia’s first indigenous feature film is based on true events that led to the indigenous demonstrations of 1990 and 1996, two events related to the…

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The Handmade Thing - Del Harrow

The potter Hamada Shoji said that a good bowl should be larger on the inside than the outside. My work is an ongoing exploration of the possibility that a tactile physical form might contain an…

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Panel Discussion: Talking Craft - Ceramics II How do craft and "making" affect the construction of who we are?

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Talking Craft - Fabrics - Leah Buechley, Jess Jones, Michael Nitsche, Clint Zeagler

How do crafting, making, and technology shape us and our communities? A one-day event featuring keynote speaker Leah Buechley (inventor of the LilyPad and formerly Director of MIT’s High Low…

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DILAC Project: Historical Data Visualization by Lauren Klein

Through the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center, LMC Prof. Lauren Klein and students are working on a project to digitally recreate and reinterpret a data visualization created by Elizabeth…

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Healthy Dissent: Urban Ecologies and the Art of Relational Politics - Michael J. Montoya

Michael J. Montoya presents the Spring Public Lecture of the Working Group on Race and Racism in Contemporary Biomedicine, an interdisciplinary and cross-institution initiative supported by GT-FIRE.…

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Embodiment of Culture - Anne Pollock, Lena Ting

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Welcome - Ian Bogost et al

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Concluding Remarks - Barbara Stafford

Barbara Maria Stafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Emerita, at the University of Chicago. Her work explors the intersections between the visual arts and the physical and…

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