Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 5. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Hosted by DH-Cologne www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org Date: 2024-05-14 10:54:33+00:00 From: Joanna Zylinska <jo.zylinska@gmail.com> Subject: Attending to Technology in a Time of Radical Change: symposium at King's College London, 10 June Dear All, The Centre for Attention Studies at King’s College London invites you to an afternoon symposium on how we can attend to technology, cognitively and affectively, in the present moment of radical epistemic and social change. The symposium will examine various ways in which developments in machine learning, generative AI and biometrics are impacting human language, cognition, embodiment, as well as our living environments and political ecologies. It will also explore ways of anchoring us – through ideas, concepts and images. Attending to Technology in a Time of Radical Change: an afternoon symposium Monday 10 June 2024, 16.00-18.30 King’s College London, Strand Campus Bush House (S)2.03 Speakers Mercedes Bunz, King’s College London M. Beatrice Fazi, University of Sussex Olga Goriunova, Royal Holloway University of London Gabriela Méndez Cota, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México Joanna Zylinska, King’s College London The event is free and open to all but places need to be reserved via the link below. You can also find more details about the symposium under this link. [1]https://www.tickettailor.com/events/centreforattentionstudies/125403 8 We hope to see you there! Best, Joanna -- Joanna Zylinska Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice Director (Interim) of the [2]Centre for Attention Studies King's College London Department of Digital Humanities NEW BOOK: [3]The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI (MIT Press, open access) [4]Website [5]IG research notebook References 1. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/centreforattentionstudies/1254038 2. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/centre-attention-studies 3. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546836/the-perception-machine/ 4. http://www.joannazylinska.net/ 5. https://www.instagram.com/joanna.zylinska/ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php