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SUMMARY:CreativeTech Scotland Gathering 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the 20th of June for CreativeTech Scotland Gathering for an exciting day of cutting edge creative tech keynotes\, demos and panels with workshops and a closing reception with live improvised electronic music from Boardgame. \n\n\n\nOur aim is to bring people together from across the creative and cultural sector in every discipline to meet\, connect\, share know-how\, be inspired by new innovations and be amazed by how we each use creative technology to deliver our services\, products and audience experiences. \n\n\n\nView the outline programme to give you a flavour of the day\, from our keynote with Tupac Martir\, Satore Studios to a range of industry spotlights\, hands-on workshops\, and a showcase of creative tech demonstrations and lightening talks\, with a closing reception and performance with networking\, refreshments and snacks. \n\n\n\nThe event will be hosted on The University of Edinburgh campus across the Informatics Forum\, Inspace Gallery and the Student Enterprise Hub. \n\n\n\nAccess – Please let us know if you have any access or dietary requirements that would help you to feel more comfortable and able to join this event. This could include things like seating close to the front for visibility\, a information on parking or access to a quiet space. Please email engagement.efi@ed.ac.uk with any comments or questions. \n\n\n\nWe also have care vouchers available for those who would like this help to enable attendance please email engagement.efi@ed.ac.uk with your request or for more information \n\n\n\nDietary – We will provide catering for a range of dietary requirements. Please answer the questions at the booking stage to help us order appropriately and email engagement.efi@ed.ac.uk with any comments or questions. \n\n\n\nVenues\n\n\n\nInformatics Forum\, The University of Edinburgh10 Crichton Street Edinburgh EH8 9AB \n\n\n\nBayes Centre\, The University of Edinburgh47 PotterrowEdinburgh\, EH8 9BT \n\n\n\nInspace\, The University of Edinburgh1 Crichton Street Edinburgh EH8 9AB
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/creativetech-scotland-gathering-2025/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Forum,Performance,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:AI and Digital Innovations for Voice and Vocal Music
DESCRIPTION:The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh is thrilled to announce an international and interdisciplinary symposium on the intersection of music and AI\, with a particular focus on the performance of voice\, song and the composition of vocal music highlighting AI-based singing or voice processing tools. Building on the AI & chamber music conference organised by IASH Fellow Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina with the University of London earlier this year\, this one-day symposium aims to extend the initial critical conversation. It will provide a forum for peer feedback\, networking and community building for scholars\, creative practitioners and postgraduate research students working at the fascinating crossroads of music\, creativity\, and AI studies. \n\n\n\nCall-for-papers information here (Note: CFP deadline closed\, programme announcement coming soon. Limited spots for paper presentations are available. If you’d still like to present\, please contact us asap). \n\n\n\nAt the heart of this symposium on vocal music is the promotion of diversity in vocal representations via AI\, featuring critical discussions centred around how AI’s creative intelligence challenges and redefines conventional vocal types defined by gender\, ethnic-cultural\, linguistic and neural norms. The symposium celebrates underrepresented voices in two notable ways: by using AI to amplify a diverse range of ‘singing voices’ during the symposium’s signature opera concerts at the Reid Concert Hall\, and by inviting presenters from diverse backgrounds to contribute ‘critical voices’ to the debates surrounding AI vocal songs. To achieve this\, the symposium features a diverse programme that includes: \n\n\n\n(1) Keynote speech: Professor Ricardo Climent\, Professor of Interactive Music and Director of the NOVARS Research Centre at the University of Manchester\, will deliver an engaging keynote titled ‘How to get away with the Ocean of Data and sneak your creative voice’. \n\n\n\n(2) Expert talks: Four invited speakers will share their insights: \n\n\n\n– Dr Emmanouil Benetos (Queen Mary University of London): Perspectives on machine learning paradigms for analysing vocal music. \n\n\n\n– Dr Robert Laidlow (University of Oxford): Reflections on compositional processes using language models as worldbuilding oracles. \n\n\n\n– Dr Hedvig Jalhed (Lund University): Insights on creating characters and casting in AI-based opera. \n\n\n\n– Dr Francesco Bentivegna (University of Bristol): Analysis of voice and AI in relation to storytelling myths. \n\n\n\n(3) Paper presentations: A wonderful collection of over 15 papers around four key themes: Compositional practices & reflections; ethics & aesthetics of AI voice; machine learning\, audio AI & AI-enhanced vocal performance; and legal & economic dimensions. \n\n\n\n(4) Performances: The event features the premiere of Yūrei (Ghost) of the AI Empire\, an immersive ‘science-fiction opera’ prototype by Alexandra Huang-Kokina and Atzi Muramatsu\, alongside the performance of Post-Singularity Songs\, composed by Dr Robert Laidlow. \n\n\n\nSituated at the forefront of critical AI & music scholarship\, this symposium aims to shape both the conceptual and practical development of future AI voice & vocal songs\, ensuring that new AI tools reflect diverse and globally attuned cultural experiences and human values. A social evening with dinner and drinks will follow the conference. \n\n\n\nThe event is graciously supported by the Susan Manning Workshop Fund from IASH at the University of Edinburgh\, the Digital Research Fund from Edinburgh Centre for Data\, Culture\, and Society (CDCS) and the Conference Grant from Royal Musical Association (RMA). \n\n\n\nThe event is also co-hosted and supported by the new research cluster ‘Creativity\, AI\, and the Human’ at Edinburgh Futures Institute\, led by Dr Caterina Moruzzi.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ai-and-digital-innovations-for-voice-and-vocal-music/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Annual Data Conference 2024: Data\, Deepfakes and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Data and artificial intelligence has played an increasingly prominent role in elections in recent years. 2024 is packed with democratic elections\, in countries including the UK\, United States and India\, but what impact will data and AI have – both positive and negative? \n\n\n\nHow are rogue actors spreading disinformation and deploying plausible deepfakes to influence elections – and undermine our trust in democracy more generally? \n\n\n\nHow can democratic societies counter those threats  – and more importantly\, how can we build better future democracies by regulating and controlling AI and data effectively? \n\n\n\nHear from experts on these and a range of other issues around the complex interplay between artificial intelligence\, data and democracy.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/annual-data-conference-2024-data-deepfakes-and-democracy/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:FinTech Scotland Festival 
DESCRIPTION:Fintech Scotland Festival will take place between 25 September 2024 and 04 October 2024 across Scotland. \n\n\n\nThe festival will contain conferences\, meet-ups\, morning breakfast sessions\, evening networking events and much more. \n\n\n\nCheck the Fintech Scotland Festival website for dates and venues.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/fintech-scotland-festival/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Financial Services & FinTech,Talk/Discussion,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240919T090000
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SUMMARY:The Digital Museum Conference
DESCRIPTION:What is the relationship between the digital and the museum? This question is at the heart of a 4- year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project\, Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse)\, from which this 2-day workshop emerges. \n\n\n\nWe ask this question to tease out the multiple ways in which collections and objects housed in museums can be remediated and remade in new contexts. It enables us to think through what the ‘digital’ and the ‘analogue’ are\, particularly in light of how the object\, now transformed through printing\, 3D imagery\, video\, sound\, photography\, and sophisticated photogrammetry tools\, evoke complex questions around what the ‘object’ embodies and how various audiences respond to them. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will take place over two days from Thursday 19th – Friday 20th September in Edinburgh. Attendance is free\, but due to limited spaces please register above to reserve your space. Registration will take place on the morning of Thursday 19th. Our venue is to be confirmed but the workshop will take place in or around University of Edinburgh central campus. \n\n\n\nA full programme will be available shortly. \n\n\n\nSpeakers include: \n\n\n\n\nJelena Porsanger (Sámi Museum in Karasjok)\n\n\n\nNathaniel Majaw (St. Anthony’s College)\n\n\n\nThupten Kelsang (St Anthony’s College)\n\n\n\nCara Krmpotich (University of Toronto)\n\n\n\nGwyneria Isaac (Smithsonian)\n\n\n\nJoshua Bell (Smithsonian)\n\n\n\nNoel Lobley (University of Virginia)\n\n\n\nJohn Harries (University of Edinburgh)\n\n\n\nMridu Rai (UCL)\n\n\n\nPaul Basu (University of Oxford)\n\n\n\nMark Elliot (University of Cambridge)\n\n\n\n\nKeynote Lecture (Thursday 19th): ‘Digital Ways of Knowing’ by Haidy Geismar\, Professor of Anthropology\, UCL. \n\n\n\nLocation to be announced.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-digital-museum-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Economics of Financial Technology Conference
DESCRIPTION:Against the backdrop of regulatory developments\, innovations in technology have significantly reshaped the finance landscape across the world\, upending long-established orders of asset transformation. The economic processes in the finance sector are inextricably linked to the wellbeing of everyone in a modern economy. Therefore\, our ongoing understanding of the evolution of the sector is non-negotiable. Academics\, finance experts\, and policymakers have a responsibility to lead this drive. \n\n\n\nTo this end\, the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission\, with support from the University of Edinburgh Business School and the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, are pleased to host the third installment of the Economics of Financial Technology Conference in order to stimulate debate and research on financial innovation and the digital economy. The conference will bring together academics\, policymakers\, and finance professionals to share new insights and discuss the economic issues related to the application of technology to the practice of finance in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. \n\n\n\nThe three-day conference will include keynote lectures\, panel discussions\, and novel research presentations and discussions.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/economics-of-financial-technology-conference-2/
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Business School\, The University of Edinburgh\, 29 Buccleuch Place\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:TikTok: Work\, Time\, and Play in a Platform Economy
DESCRIPTION:TikTok: Work\, Time\, and Play in a Platform Economy brings together papers that analyse emerging digital visual culture(s) and aesthetics through critical platform analyses. We are particularly interested in TikTok\, as it is a platform where many dynamic digital subcultures proliferate and circulate.  \n\n\n\nOver the last decade\, the internet has been subsumed by a complex of privately owned online services that call themselves ‘platforms’. This has radically altered the coordinates of the internet\, from a peer-to-peer communications infrastructure to an extractive arguably ‘neo-feudal’ system.  \n\n\n\nIn light of these recent shifts\, the conference will rethink a number of questions about digital culture that were initially explored in the early 2010s\, with the rise of Web 2.0. Papers will explore contemporary understandings of the construction of the self and collective identity\, digital labour and cultural production\, political discourse online\, digital affect\, and more.  \n\n\n\nKeynotes by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Y7 (Hannah Cobb & Declan Colquitt). \n\n\n\nFull programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n09:00 Coffee and Tea \n\n\n\n09:30 Content Providers Introduction (morning session) \n\n\n\n09:40 “Working Around the Clock App. Algospeak As Content Creation    Strategy on TikTok” – Daniel Klug \n\n\n\n10:00 “Reimagining Work and Domesticity: The Stay-at-Home-Girlfriend Phenomenon on TikTok” – Marsha Batubara & Lucia Bainotti \n\n\n\n10:20 “‘Scraper’ and the Folkless Lore of Ritualised Prediction” – Most Dismal Swamp \n\n\n\n10:40 Break \n\n\n\n11:00 “FIRST PHONE (2024)” – Ruba Al-Sweel \n\n\n\n11:20 “Artistic Resistance in the Era of TikTok/Douyin” – Shiyu Gao \n\n\n\n11:40 Q & A work and time \n\n\n\n12:00 Lunch and Refreshments \n\n\n\n12:50 Content Providers Introduction (afternoon session) \n\n\n\n13:00 Keynote and Q & A- Y7 \n\n\n\n14:00 ““Stich Incoming”: TikTok Tarot Reading and the Return of the Scam” -Karen Gregory \n\n\n\n14:20 “Counterspeculative Constellations: A card reading format to unsettle the use of tarot and astrology in queer feminist artistic practice” – Frances Breden \n\n\n\n14:40 “‘This Message Is For You’: Decoding Angelic Interfaces and Images on TikTok” – Sara Nuta \n\n\n\n15:00 Q & A play \n\n\n\n15:10 Break \n\n\n\n15:30 Keynote and Q & A – Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou \n\n\n\n17:00 Drinks Reception \n\n\n\n\nPlease\, register for attendance via Eventbrite before 7th June. \n\n\n\nContent Providers is a research collaboration between researchers Ian Rothwell (University of Edinburgh)\, Idil Galip (University of Amsterdam)\, Ingrid Luquet-Gad (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). \n\n\n\nThe conference is supported by The New Real and the Edinburgh College of Art\, with additional funding from the College of Humanities\, Arts and Social Science.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/tiktok-work-time-and-play-in-a-platform-economy/
LOCATION:Lister Learning and Teaching Centre\, 5 Roxburgh Place\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9SU
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