Living with Robots
Playfair Library Hall Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hybrid Event
A panel discussion among experts on what it means to ‘live well’ with robots.
Free
9 events found.
Reimagining Universities: Speculative Scenarios for Higher Education
Bayes Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Room G.03 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomProfessors from the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh will share their speculative scenarios for Higher Education Futures in an event which will be a mix of research-sharing, storytelling and collaboration.
Free
LIMBIC: Ego, Elegy, Ecstasy
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hybrid Event
This audio-visual performance by composer Philly Holmes responds to Limbic, a poetry collection by Peter Scalpello. Through words, sound and imagery, the performance traces a personal narrative exploring intimacy and queer discovery, enacting the confusions and graces of a queer life through hybridity of storytelling forms.
Free
Robotic Poems: A Writing Workshop with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Virtual Event
In this workshop, participants will learn basic coding elements to create a simple poem generator. The emphasis is on play and experimentation, with some background information on literary techniques. Participants will experience how computational poetics and computational thinking can jumpstart or become part of a creative writing process.
Free
The Inquisitive Bodymind: Scottish Dance Theatre and Dr Marisa De Andrade
Traverse Bar, Traverse Theatre 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe multidisciplinary event will feature short performances by Scottish Dance Theatre’s dancers, including an excerpt from ‘Thin h/as h/air’ by choreographer Pauline Torzuoli. Inspired by the natural phenomena of Itla Okla and Hair Ice, this playful and poetic solo work follows the journey of a man: from scientist to the spirit of a tree.
Free
For the Love of Fashion
Virtual Event
Our love of fashion is driving an unsustainable system of manufacturing, distributing and disposing of our clothing that is impacting our planet. How can we change our behaviour and the system for the love of the planet? How can we harness new technology such as Artificial Intelligence, robotics and informatics, and creative tools such as Augmented and Virtual Reality?
Free
Rule of the Robots: A Conversation with Martin Ford
Virtual Event
A discussion with Rule of the Robots author Martin Ford, who argues that the true AI revolution is yet to come.
Free
Post-Internet Pleasure as an Act of Poetics
Virtual Event
This writing workshop will look at a range of writers and theories, exploring interdisciplinary strands of New Media hybrid writing. You will be provided with the tools and ideas to craft your own digital poetics, and means by which to use the virtual on the page, creating and fostering a relationship between the machine and the author.
Free
Hybrid Humans: Harry Parker and Bertolt Meyer
Virtual Event
How can the latest developments in technology, robotics and implants lead to powerful and liberating possibilities for what bodies can be? In this event, speakers share their eye-opening accounts of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering what it means to be human.
Free
