(un)Stable Diffusions

A two-day international symposium on AI’s publics, publicities, and publicizations at Milieux Institute, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Rens Dimmendaal & Johann Siemens / Better Images of AI / Decision Tree reversed / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 May 23 to May 24, 9am to 5pm Online and in person at Milieux Institute EV Building, 1515 Saint-Catherine St WMontreal Quebec… Continue reading (un)Stable Diffusions

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AI Police Imaginaries

An Examination of AI Assisted Police Surveillance  Daniel Slapcoff, Camille Lapointe, Ali Usama Zreik and Warsame Isse

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No Tweets, Just Vibes

Checking Twitter’s Vibe And Speculative Sonic Futures With Vibebot Rowena Chodhowski, Maurice Jones, and Leona Nikolić In the 1930s, music was introduced into elevators in an effort to reduce passenger discomfort and fear as these apparatus were quite hazardous and unpredictable at the time. This music was not designed as an object for active listening,… Continue reading No Tweets, Just Vibes

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[Art]ificial Intelligence

Authenticity and Audience Reactions to Stylistic Mimicry Using Stable Diffusion Ozgem Elif Acar, Hannah Jamet-Lange, Margaret Johnston, Peter Morgan, Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson Generative artificial intelligence tools have developed rapidly. Pour project start just as text-to-image generation software was becoming increasingly popular and readily available through programs such as Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, Open AI’s DALL-E, and… Continue reading [Art]ificial Intelligence

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Artificial Broadcast

Follow Alex, Aviva and Beatrice as they venture into the daunting world of A.I. in order to shed light on the intersection of artificial intelligence, journalism and bias. In an effort to explore algorithmic auditing and AI in more depth, our team created a three-part podcast series that delves into the research-creation process of algorithmic… Continue reading Artificial Broadcast

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MUTEK Fest-Forward: Imagining Future Festivals

During MUTEK Forum 8th edition in Montreal, our team convened members of the public, policy makers, industry professionals, and artists to speculate on the transforming role of the festival as a sociopolitical actor. Here we want to share our approach that takes as points of departure the Digital Democracy Workshop Kit on speculative design and… Continue reading MUTEK Fest-Forward: Imagining Future Festivals

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Machine Ménagerie

by Joseph Thibodeau Machine Ménagerie is an installation comprising a collection of small autonomous robots living together in a transparent enclosure. Ranging in shape and sophistication, these artificial creatures have no “function”. They spend their time entangled in a mesh of interactions with each other and the environment, much as we do. They are embodiments… Continue reading Machine Ménagerie

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Hype, Hyper or Over-hyped

A Student Symposium on Critical AI Studies in Canada Organizers include Meaghan Wester, Sophie Toupin, Jonathan Roberge, Fenwick McKelvey, Maurice Jones, Nick Gertler and Guillaume Dandurand June 16 from 1pm to 4:30pm and June 17 10am to 3:30pm Online and in person at Milieux Institute EV Building, 1515 Saint-Catherine St WMontreal Quebec About UsWe are… Continue reading Hype, Hyper or Over-hyped

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Imagining an AI Commons

On 6 December 2019, scholars from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom gathered to imagine an AI commons. The collaborative workshop to develop a commons-based vision for the future of AI as an intervention to understand transformations in citizen engagement as part of a larger research project to explore practices of citizenship in… Continue reading Imagining an AI Commons

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AI Stack Workshop

In December 2021, our research team gathered for a collaborative workshop to theorize AI’s regulatory uptake in Canada, drawing on situational analysis. We selected four topics as probes to shed light on what we designated the “AI stack”: 1) the use of AI in data centres, 2) Canadian AI suppliers and AI powered botnets, 3)… Continue reading AI Stack Workshop

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