metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin

🧚♀️🪻👁️ "The humanities are vital to our current AI moment," states metaLAB Researcher Maria Dikcis while giving a seminar about the lab's AI Pedagogy Project to the Harvard's Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP) Fellows. At Harvard, Maria teaches courses that foreground humanistic, justice-oriented approaches to AI and data science, such as “Race in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” and “The Dark Side of Big Data.” 📊📚 As Editor of AI Pedagogy Project, she oversees the selection and curation of assignment ideas submitted by educators worldwide, guiding the project’s vision to integrate critical and creative perspectives on AI into the classroom. We are so grateful to have Maria on the #metalabteam ! 🙌 Project info: https://buff.ly/3G49XHg #AI

🎉 Congrats to metaLAB principal Magda Romanska & affiliate Kasia Lech on their 🏆 2024 ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. The award is in recognition of the team's global theatre portal TheTheatreTimes.com, which demonstrates the award's emphasis on "innovation and rigor in the use of electronic/digital media for the purpose of producing and disseminating knowledge about theatre and performance." 🌐🎭. Read more about Magda and Kasia's project: 📰 https://buff.ly/4eYOxeD #digitaltheatre #globaltheatre #IOTF #futurestage #digitalaccessibility

Did you know that today is World Listening Day? Sharing an invitation to join sound artists Jacek Smolicki and Danny Clarke for a listening session with the biological world of plants and soil at the Herter Community Garden in Boston on SUNDAY, July 21 at 2pm EDT. ⛅️🔈🌳 Using hydrophones, geophones, and biosensors, The Sounds We Eat 🍴🫛😋 is a sonic exploration of the acoustic ecology with the biological agents living in an organic community garden situated along the banks of the Charles River.

📅 Workshop Announcement We are excited to announce "The Quality of Slownesses in Expanded Neural Networks," hosted by metaLAB (at) Harvard! 📅 Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 🕒 Time: 3:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT / 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM CEST 📍 Location: Freie Universität Berlin and online Join us online to explore the concept of "slowness" in neural networks and how slower processing can enhance network functionality and performance. Learn from leading experts and engage in insightful discussions about the benefits and applications of this unique approach. For more details and to join online, https://buff.ly/4bv53QJ This event is organized in collaboration with the KMM at FU Berlin and metaLAB (at) Harvard. #metaLABHarvard #FUBerlin #NeuralNetworks #AI #Workshop #Research #Innovation

📚At the heart of metaLAB (at) Harvard's AI Pedagogy Project is a collection of assignments and materials for educators curious about how AI affects their students and their syllabi. It is an evolving collection of curated assignments that integrate AI tools from educators around the world. ✏️ Following are the latest assignments added, all found here https://buff.ly/49buAOp 👇 🗣️ "Heritage Speakers and Translingualism" by Esperanza Román Mendoza 🖥️ "The Medium is (a big part of) the Message" by Jessica Yurkofsky 🤲 "AI in Teachers’ Hands" by Helen Choi

Join us for a compelling lecture by metaLAB Principal Dario Rodighiero on the future of dynamic classification systems in libraries! 📚✨ This talk will explore innovative methods using machine learning and data visualization to create flexible, real-time classification schemes that adapt to current trends and usage patterns. 🧠💡 📅 Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2024 🕒 Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT 📍 Location: Freie Universität Berlin and online To attend in Berlin, please register via Suzan Hanow at suzan.hanow@fu-berlin.de. For more details and to join online, visit https://buff.ly/3zcEvGz Dario Rodighiero is an Assistant Professor of Sciences and Technology Studies at the University of Groningen, where he serves the multidisciplinary faculty of Campus Fryslân at the Knowledge Infrastructures department. At Harvard University, Dario is a principal at MetaLAB (at) Harvard and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. His research focuses on knowledge design, data studies, and digital humanities, with a particular emphasis on mapping scientific communities and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) digital archives. Dario has previously worked at prestigious institutions including MIT, Sciences Po, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and the European Commission, and has lectured at venues such as CERN and Ars Electronica. #LibraryScience #DataVisualization #MachineLearning #DigitalHumanities #metaLABHarvard #metaLABBerlin

We are delighted to share that Laura Scherling Ed. D. will be giving a talk titled “Love/Hate/Ethics in the Age of AI” at KMM on June 28th 2024, 6 - 8pm CET/12-2pm EDT! You are invited to join online! Please register in advance with the link in bio. “After years of deliberation, there has been a great surge of AI products. Whether you love them or hate them, these products are now rapidly transforming our existing practices as designers, technologists, and educators. This talk considers AI through a number of ethical lenses, use cases, and speculative examples.” Laura S. Scherling is a designer, researcher, and educator at Columbia University, teaching on ethics of media, design, and technology and data visualization. She is part of the Greenspace NYC and Design Collective. Her most recent publications include “Ethics in Design and Communication: New Critical Perspectives“ and “Digital Transformation in Design: Processes and Practices.“, which releases in Spring of this year. Organized in cooperation between the KMM at FU Berlin and metaLAB (at) Harvard. Flyer: pandan #metalabharvard #kmmfuberlin #kulturundmedienmanagement #ai #laurascherling #Ethics

👒🌱🥾 This Wednesday, May 22 at 4 pm CEST-Switzerland/10 am EST- Boston, metaLAB (at) Basel artist-in-residence Kat Jungnickel will give a public Show & Tell presentation #online and onsite at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW: 🪡 "Changing the world one stitch at a time: Patents, power and the politics of clothing inventions." 🧵 In her talk, Kat Jungnickel, Prof. in the Sociology Dep. at the University of London, will discuss her European Research Council funded project Politics of Patents (POP) that researches, reconstructs and reimagines 200 years of global clothing inventions (1820-2020). 🚲🏊🏿♀️🐎 From Kat: "In this talk, I show & tell speculative sewing stories about historic sportswear inventions to explore how individuals, often in small and mundane ways, collectively attempted to change the world stitch by stitch." 👀 Event page with in-person and Zoom info: #hgkbasel_fhnw #metalabatbasel #in3

👒 Welcoming Kat Jungnickel, Prof. in the Sociology Department at the University of London, as researcher-in-residence at metaLAB (at) Basel! During their research stay, Kat will explore inventive approaches to archival research, radical histories of clothing patents, speculative sewing, and DIY wearable tech cultures. 🎩👗 In collaboration with Aylin Tschoepe, Dir. of #metalabbasel, Kat will further connect across the Institute of Contemporary Design Practices at HGK Basel FHNW and shared interests in feminist technoscience, feminist spatial & embodied practice, etc. 🧵 Inviting you to join us TOMORROW (Wed., 5/15 at 17:30 CEST) for a talk and workshop on site at HGK Basel FHNW's Food Culture Lab: "Queer and feminist speculative research methods: DIY approaches to clothing inventions and inventiveness." 🪡 Also, inviting you to join us NEXT WEEK (Wed., 5/22 at 16:00 CEST) for a show and presentation #online or onsite at the Aula (auditorium) on campus: "Changing the world one stitch at a time: Patents, power and the politics of clothing inventions." Please email metalab.hgk@fhnw.ch for more info. Online link: https://lnkd.in/gnZ9P-UF #metalabatbasel

📖🧊🍪👐 From April's metaLAB Work Share & Mingle, with special guest Petra Molnar, a Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Faculty Associate, on her new book, "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." #BorderTech #TheWallsHaveEyes