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SUMMARY:Technomoral Conversations: Technologically Mediated Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Love Machine event season. \n\n\n\nThe Technomoral Conversations series brings together leaders\, creators and innovators from academia\, technology\, business and the third sector in a “fireside chat” format to discuss futures that are worth wanting. Our conversation for the “Love Machine” EFI event season will focus on intimate relationships with machines\, from robot pets and therapeutic companions to apps for dating and romance\, to technologies embedded in our bodies. How can we navigate the complexities of technologies that are entangled with both our bodies and our emotions? \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nThis will be updated in due course. \n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event. Streaming will be live captioned. \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed please let us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/technomoral-conversations-technologically-mediated-intimacy/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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SUMMARY:Galvanised: Big Mind – Collective Behaviour and Collective Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:This Galvanised seminar addresses the opportunities that collective behaviour and collective intelligence may offer for addressing a wide range of social and political issues. In keeping with the dual science/arts theme of Galvanised\, the seminar will be presented by a biological scientist and a social and political scientist. Collective behaviour evolved in animals and serves many functions ranging from increasing safety (fish schooling) through to attachment (such as in primate groups). In humans\, collective intelligence has been shown\, experimentally\, to solve certain problems much faster than individual action\, strikingly in Riley Crane’s successful crowd-sourcing framework that won the Red Balloon challenge set by DARPA in 2009. New collective intelligence methods are increasingly and widely used in science\, business and government\, sometimes combined with artificial intelligence. Many other examples of the concept of “Big Mind” will be offered by our two speakers\, along with the limitations of such approaches. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Iain Couzin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Iain Couzin was born and brought up in Edinburgh. He is now a Director of the Max-Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the Cluster of Excellence ‘Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour’ (University of Konstanz)\, a National Geographic Explorer and a 2023 Rothschild Distinguished Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His work aims to reveal the fundamental principles that underlie evolved collective behaviour\, and consequently his research includes the study of a wide range of biological systems\, from neural collectives to insect swarms\, fish schools\, primate groups and human crowds. He has been the recipient of various high-profile awards. In 2022 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize—Germany’s highest research honour. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Sir Geoff Mulgan\n\n\n\n\nAccordion content. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Sir Geoff Mulgan (University College London) argues that collective intelligence\, prompted in part by a wave of digital technologies\, has the potential to address and perhaps help solve some of the great challenges of our time. He served as Director of Policy and later as Director of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in Downing Street under Tony Blair\, and before that as the co-founder of the Demos ‘Think-Tank’. He was Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA)\, advises governments around the world\, and is now a Professor at UCL. He is an editor in chief of the journal Collective Intelligence. His most recent book is ‘Another World is Possible’ (Hurst/OUP) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed please let us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/galvanised-big-mind-collective-behaviour-and-collective-intelligence/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023,Public Services,Tourism & Festivals
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SUMMARY:AI in Banking: The Case for Customers
DESCRIPTION:Pre-event registration and coffees will be available from 2pm\, with the event starting at 2:30pm. \n\n\n\nPredictive analytics\, virtual assistants\, and machine learning are already commonly used by banks and financial services providers. The application of AI in banking is across the board\, with uses in the front office (voice assistants and biometrics)\, middle office (anti-fraud risk monitoring and complex legal and compliance workflows)\, and back office (credit underwriting with smart contracts infrastructure) (Fares\, O.H. et al. 2022). As AI is more increasingly used to hyper-personalise user journey\, and more intelligent systems transform the way financial services providers interact with customers\, how does AI impact the customers and what are the benefits and the risks? \n\n\n\nJoin our panel discussion with experts in banking and fintech who will examine these questions: \n\n\n\n\nHow is AI transforming banking/financial services now and what is its potential in the future? \n\n\n\nHow does AI impact customer journey in the banking sector\, from customer acquisition to service delivery?\n\n\n\nWhat is the impact of AI on customers and how it can be used to improve customer experience? \n\n\n\nHow do fintech and banks specifically use AI to help vulnerable customers?\n\n\n\nWhat is the potential for bias vs efficiency when using AI to deal with customers?\n\n\n\n\nWho is taking part in this event? \n\n\n\n\nRachel Curtis – Inicio.AI\n\n\n\nManuel Peleteiro – Inbest\n\n\n\nAndreas Schaefer – Tesco Bank\n\n\n\nEuan Wielewski – Natwest\n\n\n\nMikael Paris– Fintech Scotland\n\n\n\nGbenga Ibikunle – University of Edinburgh\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be followed by networking and drinks from 4pm-5pm. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Curtis \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Curtis has spent nearly 30 years in the Financial Services arena including at Santander and then as Chief Customer Officer for a challenger bank. She still sits as a Non-Executive Director for a regional Building Society\, holding the new role of Consumer Duty Board Champion. In 2021 Rachel made the switch to lead a Fintech start-up that has a B2B software platform that uses conversational AI to help organisations better help their customers complete detailed affordability assessments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nManuel Peleteiro\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nManuel Peleteiro is an experienced product owner of data-intensive data processes and products. Manuel is the founder of Inbest\, a data analytics platform for welfare advice. At Inbest\, he is in charge of business development and product management. Before this role\, Manuel was a product owner in Moody’s Analytics\, a quant consultant at Accenture\, and an investment banking analyst at Caixabank. Manuel has a BSc (Hons) Economics and Finance\, MSc Financial Mathematics and is a CFA charterholder. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndreas Schaefer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndreas Schaefer currently works as a data science manager at Tesco Bank\, specialising in applying machine learning to credit risk projects and strategy. He is experienced in using Data Science to manage and analyse risk over the complete customer life cycle having worked in a variety of risk related roles in the UK over the last 18 years. Andreas’ roles comprised fraud strategy\, customer acquisition\, collections and recoveries as well as stress testing and capital models. He is particularly interested in using advanced data mining and machine learning to create insight over and above traditional methods. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEuan Wielewski\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEuan Wielewski is Machine Learning Lead at NatWest\, where he and his team develop AI solutions across a variety of use cases in the bank. Before joining NatWest\, Euan was the founder and CEO of Anomalous\, an AI-first start up developing deep learning-based inspection software for the aerospace industry. He was an academic at the University of Glasgow\, where he taught Python and led a research group working at the interface of materials science and numerical simulation. He has a PhD in engineering science from the University of Oxford and a MEng in mechanical engineering from the University of Glasgow. Euan loves to read sci-fi and is a massive coffee nerd. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMikael Paris\n\n\n\n\nMarketing Director at FinTech Scotland\, Mickael has worked for both start-ups and FTSE100 companies including Maxymiser\, Skyscanner and more recently Standard Life where he was headed up the digital function. \n\n\n\nIn January 2018 Mickael and Stephen Ingledew launched FinTech Scotland to help make Scotland one of the leading fintech hubs in the world. \n\n\n\nMickael speaks at various conferences focussing on fintech\, customer led and data driven marketing. In 2015 he was featured in the BIMA100 list of marketing influencers as well as the Marketing Magazine NextGen Power 100 and last year he was awarded the title of Fintech Evangelist of the Year at the Digit Fintech Summit Awards. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMikael Paris\n\n\n\n\nMarketing Director at FinTech Scotland\, Mickael has worked for both start-ups and FTSE100 companies including Maxymiser\, Skyscanner and more recently Standard Life where he was headed up the digital function. \n\n\n\nIn January 2018 Mickael and Stephen Ingledew launched FinTech Scotland to help make Scotland one of the leading fintech hubs in the world. \n\n\n\nMickael speaks at various conferences focussing on fintech\, customer led and data driven marketing. In 2015 he was featured in the BIMA100 list of marketing influencers as well as the Marketing Magazine NextGen Power 100 and last year he was awarded the title of Fintech Evangelist of the Year at the Digit Fintech Summit Awards. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nGbenga Ibikunle\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGbenga Ibikunle is a Professor and Chair of Finance at the University of Edinburgh\, and as the Director for Industry\, Economy and Society at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute\, he leads on strategic FinTech and Financial Services initiatives and convenes the FinTech and Financial Services Research Cluster at the University. He was the Founding Director of both the University’s PhD in Financial Technology programme and its taught master’s degree programme\, the MSc Finance\, Technology and Policy (FTP). Gbenga is also the Deputy Scientific Director at the Fondazione European Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre in Pescara\, Italy\, a Fellow at the RoZetta Institute (formerly Capital Markets CRC) in Sydney\, Australia\, and a Member of the of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Resilient Financial Systems (2023-2024 term). Gbenga’s current research sits at the intersection of the economics of financial markets and data science with applications to practice and policy. His commissioned research reports have been published by various bodies\, such as the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and the UK Houses of Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Corporate Governance Group. His work has also been published in leading international academic journals\, such as Journal of Financial Markets\, Journal of Banking & Finance\, Journal of Marketing and Expert Systems with Applications\, and featured in the news media\, such as The New York Times\, The Economist\, Financial Times\, Forbes and Bloomberg Markets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ai-in-banking-the-case-for-customers/
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Business School\, The University of Edinburgh\, 29 Buccleuch Place\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Financial Services & FinTech,Love Machine: Spring 2023
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SUMMARY:It’s All About the Feelings...
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us for a performance event that takes a peek inside AI and emotion recognition. \n\n\n\nEmotional\, empathic\, sentiment recognition systems\, is an area of AI of significant implication for our current and near future lives. Pitched as capturing ‘real-time emotion’ and ‘non-conscious responses’\, they have been developed as a method to measure and map our emotional expressions. Current real world use cases include HR\, market research\, post-natal parenting and education\, near future uses include potential use within border control and a planned integration within the production of all new cars in the EU from 2024. \n\n\n\nHowever\, there are serious concerns about both the efficacy of these technologies and the ethics of use. In October 2022\, the UK Information Commission warned companies to steer clear of emotional analysis technologies or face fines\, due to “pseudoscientific” nature of the field as well as citing the potential of technology to breach people’s rights and break laws (see report here). Central to these concerns is the reductive nature of these systems and the problematic standardised categorisations embedded within their databases\, which present serious issues of representation and bias\, with the potential to reinforce inequalities\, including racism\, sexism\, ageism and ableism.   \n\n\n\nBut how does sentiment recognition technology actually work and how accurate is it? This performance will reveal how emotional AI databases actually work\, behind the smoke and mirrors. It will tease out the affect these technologies might have on our near futures and behaviours\, and present an opportunity to think about appropriate\, fair real-world application and uses of AI technologies. \n\n\n\n‘It’s All About the Feelings…’ is a creative research project led by Beverley Hood\, an artist and Reader in Technological Embodiment & Creative Practice at the University of Edinburgh\, featuring actor\, Pauline Goldsmith. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the Centre for Data\, Culture and Society\, and supported by The New Real\, Tramway Supports\, Edinburgh College of Art\, the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Creative Informatics and Cove Park. \n\n\n\nPerformer Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nBeverley Hood\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeverley Hood is an artist and Reader in Technological Embodiment and Creative Practice. Her creative research work interrogates the impact of technology on the body\, relationships and human experience through the creation of digital media and performance arts projects\, and writing. She has extensive experience of collaborative work and project development involving a range of practitioners\, including medical researchers\, scientists\, writers\, technologists\, dancers\, actors and composers. Beverley’s work has been performed\, screened and exhibited at leading international venues.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPauline Goldsmith\n\n\n\n\nPauline Goldsmith is a Glasgow based actor\, writer\, director and theatre maker from Belfast. She is also an occasional stand-up comedienne\, creating and performing her own shows. Her critically acclaimed production – Irish wake\, Bright Colours Only\, continues to tour at home and abroad – in a hearse. She has worked with Vanishing Point Theatre for over twenty years as an actor and creative associate working most recently on Interiors\, Wonderland\, Tomorrow\, The Destroyed Room and Tabula Rasa which she co-wrote and performed with Scottish Ensemble. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Karen Gregory\n\n\n\n\nDr Karen Gregory is a digital sociologist\, ethnographer\, and Senior Lecturer in the department of sociology at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently at work on a research project that examines workers’ conceptualizations of risk in the on-demand platform economy and has particular interest in digital worker inquiry and the uses of digital and creative methods to understand the experience of platform work. She is author of many articles on our relationship with technology including ‘Anger in academic Twitter: Sharing\, caring and getting mad online‘ (2018) and ‘Delivering Edinburgh: Uncovering the digital geography of platform labour in the city‘ (2020)\, and she is co-editor of Digital Sociologies (Polity Press\, 2016). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nImage credit: Chris Scott
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/its-all-about-the-feelings/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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SUMMARY:CI Labs 23: FESTIVAL FUTURES
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we explore the themes\, ideas and methods our researchers used to produce FestForward magazine – a fictional\, speculative cultural magazine\, set in 2030\, exploring digital and data-driven futures for Edinburgh and South East Scotland’s festivals. \n\n\n\nFestForward\, written in 2022 and produced in collaboration with Glasgow-based design researchers Andthen\, was developed through interviews\, conversations and workshops with individuals and organisations working in the region’s cultural sector. The magazine tells stories about possible futures – the good\, the bad and the ugly – to stimulate conversations about how we work together in the present to discover and develop equitable and sustainable approaches to the application of digital and data-driven technologies. \n\n\n\nThe programme will include:\n\n\n\nA speculative futures workshop\, using provocations and ideas from FestForward\, where you’ll have the chance to write your own festival futures. \n\n\n\nPanel discussions imagining equitable and sustainable festivals in 2030\, and exploring futures for creative technologies\, online and hybrid performance and concepts of ‘liveness’ \n\n\n\nLive performance! More details announced soon… \n\n\n\nRefreshments provided and the Biscuit Factory bar will be open
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ci-labs-23-festival-futures/
CATEGORIES:Creative Industries,Tourism & Festivals
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab: Futures Dreaming
DESCRIPTION:Our Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’\, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present. The term utopia was coined from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book \n\n\n\nUtopia\, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean.  The word comes from Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόπος (“place”) and means “no-place”\, and strictly describes any non-existent society ‘described in considerable detail’. \n\n\n\nIn this session invited speakers will present visions of their Utopia\, which we will (individually or in groups\, as preferred) respond to by creating our own artistic and creative mini-Utopias. We will consider what Utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change.  \n\n\n\n\n11am-12pm: Introductions and Presentations \n\n\n\n12pm-1pm: Lunch and Dreaming/Making \n\n\n\n1pm-2pm: Sharing  Lunch and materials for creating will be provided. The lab will also include meditation\, poetry reading/listening and simple movement and breathing exercises. All body types and levels of experience welcome. \n\n\n\n\nUtopia is a ‘no-space’ for contemplation\, innovation and collaboration. Our labs curate interactions between academics\, artists\, entrepreneurs\, students and audiences in person and online globally. We are interested in that which is provocative and irreverent as well as that which is nurturing and joyful. Utopia questions are catalysts for inquiry\, learning and creativity. With an emphasis on innovative and experimental ways of communicating\, we will explore meditation\, dialogue and co-creation with the help of a facilitator. Participants consist of University staff and students\, and non-University practitioners.  \n\n\n\nImportant Notice: This event may be photographed and/or recorded for promotional or recruitment materials for the University and University approved third parties. For further information please contact the organisers. \n\n\n\nImage credit: Andrew Perry
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-futures-dreaming/
LOCATION:Project Room (1.06)\, 50 George Square\, 50 George Square\, Newington\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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SUMMARY:Hate in the Digital Era: Lilia Giugni and Matthew Williams
DESCRIPTION:How has technology exacerbated systems of oppression in the 21st century\, and what can we do to resist? This event features a conversation with authors Matthew Williams and Lilia Giugni whose works examine different yet intersecting issues of human behaviour in the digital era. \n\n\n\nLilia Giugni’s book\, The Thre@t\, examines how communication technologies in today’s patriarchal digital capitalism are used to oppress\, control\, violate and exploit women. She explores how the digital world mirrors and amplifies sexism\, misogyny\, and social injustice already present in our society. However\, she also argues that the digital revolution can offer unprecedented opportunities for women’s liberation. While clearly denouncing those who gain from the status quo and have so far failed to take action\, The Thre@t also suggests a roadmap towards ‘taking back the tech’. From digital monopoly regulation to legal personnel training\, from educational interventions to feminist initiatives in tech\, we can and we must achieve digital justice for women and for all. \n\n\n\nMatthew Williams’ book\, The Science of Hate\, draws on twenty years of pioneering research – as well as his own experience as a hate-crime victim. Are our brains wired to hate? Is social media to blame for an increase in hateful abuse? With hate on the rise\, what can we do to turn the tide? Surveying human behaviour across the globe and reaching back through time\, from our tribal ancestors in prehistory to artificial intelligence in the twenty-first century\, The Science of Hate is a ground-breaking and surprising examination of the elusive ‘tipping point’ between prejudice and hate. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Lilia Giugni\n\n\n\n\nAccordion content. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Lilia Giugni is a researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cambridge\, a lecturer at the University of Bristol\, a feminist activist\, and the co-founder and CEO of the think tank Genpol-Gender & Policy Insights. Her research interests and advocacy work focus on violence against women and girls\, the gendered side of technology and innovation\, and the intersections between gender\, racial and social injustice. A multi-disciplinary researcher\, she sits on the board of several charities\, social enterprises and feminist networks. She regularly writes articles on women’s rights matters and delivers talks and keynote speeches internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Williams is a Professor of Criminology and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts in hate crime and hate speech. He advises and has conducted research for TikTok\, Twitter\, Instagram\, Google\, Deutsche Telekom\, Airbus\, The Professional Footballers’ Association\, the UK Home Office and the US Department of Justice. Matthew also founded and directs HateLab\, a global hub for data and insight to monitor and counter online hate speech and crime. He has conducted the largest dedicated study of hate victimisation in the UK. His research has appeared in numerous media and documentaries and publications.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/hate-in-the-digital-era-lilia-giugni-and-matthew-williams/
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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LOCATION:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/hate-in-the-digital-era-lilia-giugni-and-matthew-williams/
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Humans: Harry Parker and Bertolt Meyer
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nHarry Parker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarry Parker is the author of Anatomy of a Soldier (2016)\, which has been translated in eight languages\, and Hybrid Humans (2022)\, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He grew up in Wiltshire\, and was educated at Falmouth College of Art and University College London. He joined the British Army when he was 23 and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009 as a Captain. He is now a writer and artist and lives in London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBertolt Meyer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBertolt Meyer is a Professor for Work and Organizational Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. He misses his left arm and wears an advanced bionic prosthesis instead. His research includes studying the impact of technology on social systems. As an example\, he has recently published a study about how developments in the area of bionics have the potential to change the societal stereotypes associated with physical disabilities. His views on bionics have been featured in many media outlets\, including the award-winning science documentaries How to build a bionic man (Channel4\, UK) and Homo Digitalis (arte).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Brennan\n\n\n\n\nPaul Brennan is Reader\, Clinical Director for Neurosurgery\, and Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian. His research spans the laboratory and the clinic\, combining molecular\, epidemiology and clinical investigation to guide rationale innovation to improve patient care. Paul’s clinical and research work is focused on brain tumours and he is part of the CRUK and Tessa Jowell Brain Tumour Centers of Excellence in Edinburgh. In 2014 Paul helped in the foundation of the Global Compassion Initiative at the University of Edinburgh and is a co-Director. Paul founded eoSurgical Ltd\, which provides surgical simulation training in more than 90 countries.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/hybrid-humans-harry-parker-and-bertolt-meyer/
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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LOCATION:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/hybrid-humans-harry-parker-and-bertolt-meyer/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230405T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230405T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T030226
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SUMMARY:Post-Internet Pleasure as an Act of Poetics
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will look at a range of writers and theories\, from Cecile B Evans to Elizabeth Sampat and J. R. Carpenter\, 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. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nKirsty Dunlop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKirsty Dunlop is a multimedia writer\, editor\, researcher and musician. She is working towards a DFA in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow\, exploring the possibilities of hybrid New Media writing and glitchful experiments through her concept of ‘Emergent Essaying’. She is a tutor in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Glasgow\, regularly leads workshops and guest lectures on digital hybrid forms\, and is a freelance Games Developer. She is Senior Editor at SPAM Press and recent publications include the collaborative pamphlet Soft Friction (Mermaid Motel\, 2021) and multimedia research in ICIDS 2021 (Springer). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIan Macartney\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIan Macartney is a writer. His publications include !/Object (SPAM Press\, 2022) and Turtleshell (Saló Press\, 2023). In 2017 he founded the Aberdeen-based arts collective Re-Analogue – in 2021 he founded the small press sincere corkscrew. His most recent screenplay was for Caledonian Dreams (directed by Ewan McIntosh)\, a finalist for Best Scottish Film at the British Short Film Awards. He makes electronic music as adios nervosa\, sound art as FORSYTH\, digital visuals as Russell Teapot\, videos as Our Non-Hero\, helped run the netlabel Almost Ghosts\, managed the ‘gonzo internet criticism’ blog Epikinetics\, hosted the online interview series Spoke In Mirrors\, edited the music magazine Dancing About Architecture and does other things under the purview Of Ghosts.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/post-internet-pleasure-as-an-act-of-poetics/
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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LOCATION:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/post-internet-pleasure-as-an-act-of-poetics/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230403T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230403T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T030226
CREATED:20230214T140259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230418T133019Z
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SUMMARY:Rule of the Robots: A Conversation with Martin Ford
DESCRIPTION:AI is impossible to avoid online. If you have a smartphone\, you have AI in your pocket. And it has already changed everything from how doctors diagnose disease to how you interact with friends or read the news. But in Rule of the Robots\, Martin Ford argues that the true revolution is yet to come. \n\n\n\nIn this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots\, Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology that is altering every dimension of human life\, often for the better. For example\, advanced science is being done by machines\, solving devilish problems in molecular biology that humans could not\, and AI can help us fight climate change or the next pandemic. It also has a capacity for profound harm. Deep fakes – AI-generated audio or video of events that never happened – are poised to cause havoc throughout society. AI empowers authoritarian regimes like China with unprecedented mechanisms for social control. And AI can be deeply biased\, learning bigoted attitudes from us and perpetuating them. \n\n\n\nIn short\, this is not a technology to simply embrace\, or let others worry about. The machines are coming\, and each of us needs to know what that means if we are to thrive in the twenty-first century. Rule of the Robots is the essential guide to all of it: both AI and the future of our economy\, our politics\, our lives. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nMartin Ford\n\n\n\n\nMartin Ford is a futurist and the author of four books: Rule of the Robots\, Rise of the Robots\, winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015\, Architects of Intelligence\, and The Lights in the Tunnel. He is also the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/rule-of-the-robots-a-conversation-with-martin-ford/
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023,Public Services
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LOCATION:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/rule-of-the-robots-a-conversation-with-martin-ford/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230329T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230329T150000
DTSTAMP:20260406T030226
CREATED:20230214T140256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240711T105304Z
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SUMMARY:For the Love of Fashion
DESCRIPTION: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? What does the data tell us\, how can we harness new technology such as Artificial Intelligence\, robotics and informatics\, and creative tools such as Augmented and Virtual Reality. What is the role of 3D environments\, games and NFTs in fashion? \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nLynne Craig\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynne Craig is the Programme Director of the Design Informatics MA\, Institute of Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her practice connects design\, technology\, education\, and business development; exploring the frontiers of emergent technologies and cultural change. Throughout her career she has built businesses\, created products\, designed systems for global audiences\, and continues to reimagine what the role of ‘making’ in design\, education and business looks like for tomorrow. Lynne was Founder and Director of Digital Anthropology Lab at London College of Fashion\, University of the Arts London\, where she pioneered play-based design and engineering programs for fashion. Lynne is Non-Executive Director and Co-Founder of Holition Augmented Retail\, and an elected member of Goldsmiths Centre Trade Advisory Strategy Committee\, and Fellow\, Royal Society of Arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Lynn Wilson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Lynn Wilson is a circular design practitioner\, researcher\, and educator\, who focuses on consumer behaviour and the transition to a circular economy. Dr Wilson is the founder of Circular Design Scotland which provides consultancy support to businesses transitioning to circular business models and material practices and is currently a Creative Entrepreneur within the Creative Informatics Programme\, University of Edinburgh\, where she is developing a Circular Materials Repository. She is a contributor to Making Things Last – A Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland and has been a Fellow of the Arts\, Commerce and Manufacture (FRSA) since 2015. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/for-the-love-of-fashion/
CATEGORIES:Creative Industries,Love Machine: Spring 2023
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LOCATION:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/for-the-love-of-fashion/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230328T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230328T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T030226
CREATED:20230214T140254Z
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SUMMARY:The Inquisitive Bodymind: Scottish Dance Theatre and Dr Marisa De Andrade
DESCRIPTION:Join Scottish Dance Theatre and author and researcher Dr Marisa De Andrade in this multi-disciplinary event exploring the notion of research in the arts\, academia and science. What does research-based practice look like today and\, crucially\, what does it do? What insights can an embodied methodology offer into enquiry and how it may provide us with valuable evidence to bring about change? \n\n\n\nThis event brings together discussion\, creative exercises and performance to stimulate a thought-provoking environment. The evening is hosted by Dr Marisa De Andrade\, Senior Lecturer in Health Science & Society at University of Edinburgh\, and Joan Clevillé\, dancer\, choreographer and Artistic Director of Scottish Dance Theatre\, Scotland’s flagship contemporary dance company. The 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. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies \n\n\n\n\n\nJoan Clevillé\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoan Clevillé is a dancer\, choreographer\, writer\, teacher and facilitator based in Dundee. He has been the Artistic Director of Scottish Dance Theatre\, Scotland’s flagship contemporary dance company\, since April 2019. Clevillé worked internationally as a dancer and rehearsal director for seventeen years in companies across Europe\, including Scottish Dance Theatre\, Collective Endeavours\, Lost Dog\, Dog Kennel Hill Project\, the Ballet of the Graz Opera\, the Choreographic Centre of Valencia\, and Ballet Carmen Roche in Madrid. He has also received international commissions as a choreographer and movement director and works regularly as a guest teacher in companies and conservatoires in Sweden\, the UK\, Catalonia and The Netherlands. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPauline Torzuoli\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPauline Torzuoli is a dancer and choreographer based in Dundee and a member of Scottish Dance Theatre. She started her professional career first as a freelancer in The Netherlands where she met choreographer Heidi Vierthaler\, leading to deeper choreographic collaborations and the continuous development of her Stream-Flow movement methodology. In 2012 Pauline joined Regensburg Dance Theater\, under the direction of Yuki Mori\, and has worked there with choreographers such as Marina Mascarell\, Stephan Thoss\, Giuseppe Spota\, Ihsan Rustem\, and Shumpei Nemoto. Pauline joined Scottish Dance Theatre in May 2018\, working and performing in works by internationally acclaimed choreographers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Marisa de Andrade\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Marisa de Andrade is co-director of the Binks Hub\, associate director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry\, and programme director of the MScR Health Humanities and Arts. She uses ‘traditional’ and (post-) qualitative methodologies to situation arts at the helm of strategic decision-making across multiple sectors including health and social care\, employability\, education and social justice.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-inquisitive-bodymind-scottish-dance-theatre-and-dr-marisa-de-andrade/
LOCATION:Traverse Bar\, Traverse Theatre\, 10 Cambridge Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH1 2ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Creative Industries,Love Machine: Spring 2023
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230327T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230327T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T030226
CREATED:20230214T140253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230224T145112Z
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SUMMARY:Robotic Poems: A Writing Workshop with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nNo experience with programming or coding? No problem! This workshop is geared towards absolute beginners and embraces “challenge by choice”. While ‘poems’ is in the title\, creative writers of other genres are certainly welcome!  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nLillian-Yvonne Bertram\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator (Noemi Press)\, a book of computational poetry that received the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work and longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Their other poetry books include How Narrow My Escapes (DIAGRAM/New Michigan)\, Personal Science (Tupelo Press)\, a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press)\, and But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (Red Hen Press). Their fifth book\, Negative Money\, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2023. They are an Associate Professor in the departments of English\, Africana Studies\, and Art & Design at Northeastern University. They also direct the Chautauqua Institution Writers’ Festival. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/robotic-poems-a-writing-workshop-with-lillian-yvonne-bertram/
CATEGORIES:Creative Industries,Love Machine: Spring 2023
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LOCATION:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/robotic-poems-a-writing-workshop-with-lillian-yvonne-bertram/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230324T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230324T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T030226
CREATED:20230214T140251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240711T105304Z
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SUMMARY:LIMBIC: Ego\, Elegy\, Ecstasy
DESCRIPTION: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. Experiences of desire reflect the interconnectedness of mediums\, sharing a dialogue between what can be written\, heard and felt. The audio performance blends experimental AI music with tape recordings\, combining digital and analogue into something unique – the sound of the love machine. \n\n\n\nPerformer Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Scalpello\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Scalpello is a queer poet and therapist from Glasgow. Their work has appeared in Five Dials\, Granta\, The London Magazine and The New York Times\, among other publications. Their first collection\, Limbic\, was published by Cipher Press in 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhilly Holmes\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhilly Holmes (he/they a.k.a. sweet philly) is a 23-year-old\, Irish\, multidisciplinary\, creative\, music producer and DJ currently based in Edinburgh. They seek the sublime\, the ritualistic\, the divine and the queer. Their current practice involves using AI tools to generate new sounds from old fragments – communing with the digital black box. As sweet philly\, they embody immaculate\, queer-centred club vibes\, smoothly bouncing between genres\, creating eclectic club soundscapes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrés N. Ordorica \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrés N. Ordorica (he/him) is a queer Latinx poet\, writer\, and educator based in Edinburgh\, Scotland. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and his own third culture upbringing\, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to be from ni de aquí\, ni de allá (neither here\, nor there). His writing often addresses themes of queerness\, liminality\, and concepts of belonging. He has published personal essays and creative journalism on the arts\, mental health\, sexuality\, and immigration. He is a graduate of Ithaca College and The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event. Streaming will be live captioned. \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/limbic-ego-elegy-ecstasy/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230324T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230324T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T030226
CREATED:20230214T140247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240711T105304Z
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Universities: Speculative Scenarios for Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Sian Bayne\, Dr Michael Gallagher and Dr Jen Ross from the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh as we unsettle assumed futures and imagine new\, desirable ones for universities. The speakers will share their new speculative scenarios for Higher Education Futures in an event which will be a mix of research-sharing\, storytelling and collaboration. We will work with the audience to build visions of what higher education could look like in the context of expansive artificial intelligence\, amplified social activism\, cognitive enhancement\, changing human-machine relationships\, climate crisis\, unbundling and ennui. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nSian Bayne\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSian Bayne is Professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh\, and Director of Education at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She directs the Centre for Research in Digital Education where her research is currently focused on higher education futures and on interdisciplinary and critical approaches to researching digital education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJen Ross\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJen Ross is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh\, Scotland. She is co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education\, and the MSc in Education Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research interests include cultural heritage futures and learning\, online distance education and digital cultures. Her recent book\, Digital Futures for Learning (2023)\, explores speculative approaches to researching and teaching about the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Gallagher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Gallagher is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Education\, a member of the Centre for Research in Digital Education\, and Programme Director of the MSc in Digital Education. He works with UNHCR\, Mastercard Foundation\, and the British Council on digital education research in Sub-Saharan Africa\, particularly with forcibly displaced populations. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/reimagining-universities-speculative-scenarios-for-higher-education/
LOCATION:Bayes Centre\, The University of Edinburgh\, Room G.03\, 47 Potterrow\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9BT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230313T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230313T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T030226
CREATED:20230214T140244Z
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SUMMARY:Living with Robots
DESCRIPTION:Will human beings ever embrace robots as a daily part of our social and economic lives? What would it mean to live well with robots? How can we ensure that robot design and development is driven by and aligned with our fundamental human needs\, such as security and social connection? Where are robots already transforming our lives in ways we may not recognize\, and which of our ideas about robots remain mere science fiction fantasies? Where can tomorrow’s robots make the world a better place\, and most importantly\, better for whom? Join us for a conversation among experts in the technical\, moral\, social and economic dimensions of the oft-promised ‘robot revolution’. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Kate Devlin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Kate Devlin is Reader in Artificial Intelligence & Society in the Department of Digital Humanities\, King’s College London. Her research investigates how people interact with and react to technologies\, both past and future. Kate is the author of the critically acclaimed Turned On: Science\, Sex and Robots (Bloomsbury\, 2018)\, which examines the ethical and social implications of technology and intimacy. She is Advocacy and Engagement director for the UKRI Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub (www.tas.ac.uk) – a collaborative platform to enable the development of socially beneficial robotics and artificial intelligence systems that are both trustworthy in principle and trusted in practice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Stokes\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Stokes is Professor and Chair of Bioinspired Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He holds degrees in engineering\, biomedical science\, and chemistry and he used this background to found The Soft Systems Group\, an interdisciplinary research laboratory focusing on the intersection of next-generation robotics technology\, bioelectronics\, and bioinspired engineering. He is Co-Lead of The National Robotarium\, and Deputy Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. Adam is enthusiastic about translating innovation out of the lab and into people’s lives. His entrepreneurial activities have been recognised by winning the Inaugural Data Driven Entrepreneurship (DDE) Academic Entrepreneurship Award\, and the Principal’s Award for Innovation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRam Ramamoorthy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRam Ramamoorthy is a computer scientist with research specialization in robotics and machine learning. Within the University of Edinburgh\, he plays a leadership role as the Director of the Institute of Perception\, Action and Behaviour in the School of Informatics\, and as an Executive Committee member for the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. He leads multi-university activities at the national level for the UKRI Research Node on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance and Regulation. His research is focussed on learning\, adaptation and control mechanisms to enable autonomous robots to cope with the uncertain and the unknown\, and for them to be effective in human-AI teams. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHelen Hastie\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHelen Hastie is a Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University. Her roles include being the Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Academic Co-lead for the National Robotarium. She is part of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node on Trust and the EPSRC Hume Prosperity Partnership for human-robot teaming. As well as being a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh\, she recently held a Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship. Her field of research is multimodal and spoken dialogue systems\, human-robot interaction and trustworthy autonomous systems.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Philosophy. She directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and co-directs the AHRC’s Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem programme. She is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Vallor’s research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character\, and maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and artificial intelligence. Her work includes advising academia\, government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event. Streaming will be live captioned. \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/living-with-robots/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230310T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230310T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T030226
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SUMMARY:Tell Me What You Want\, What You Really\, Really Want
DESCRIPTION:Everyday technologies shape our sexual desires. Whether it’s online spaces where sexuality is the focus (think dating websites\, hook-up apps and porn) or a more conspicuous presence (think social media\, shopping and entertainment)\, the design of these platforms determines what bodies are presented to us as desirable and what is precluded from view. \n\n\n\nIn an attempt to condense messy questions of love\, lust\, and sex into a machine-readable format\, technologies have produced categories of desire and fed this information back to us as if this were what we really wanted. This translation process does not treat all experiences equally\, with implications for expressions of desires that challenge the norms of white\, male\, heterosexuality. Sexuality is also mediated through a prism of capitalism\, where ideal consumers are those with desires that are fixed\, static and classifiable. \n\n\n\nWe might not know what we really\, really want. When we are repeatedly told who and what to desire by apps\, platforms and websites the relationship between technology and sexuality feels impossible to escape. \n\n\n\nIn this panel\, speakers will briefly showcase their work on the intersection of technology and sexuality\, discussing a range of interrelated topics: race and the fetishisation of certain bodies\, LGBTQ+\, young people and access to online information about sex and sexuality\, apps and the solidification of sexual categories\, the experiences of asexual and aromantic people online\, the ‘manosphere’ and misogynist hate groups\, the navigation of identities\, behaviours and desires\, dating apps and the fine line between sexual preference and sexual discrimination\, and the exacerbation of sex panics and the surveillance of sexual behaviours and actions. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nKevin Guyan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKevin Guyan is a writer and researcher whose work explores the intersection of data and identity. He is the author of Queer Data: Using Gender\, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action (Bloomsbury Academic)\, which examines the collection\, analysis and use of gender\, sex and sexuality data\, particularly as it relates to LGBTQ people in the UK. Kevin is a Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow. In 2016\, Kevin is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland\, sits on Young Scot’s Data Advisory Group and the boards of Evaluation Support Scotland and the Equality Network. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEris Young\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEris Young is a queer\, transgender author of fiction and nonfiction. Their short stories have appeared in Pseudopod\, Fusion Fragment\, Escape Pod and Metastellar\, as well as anthologies such as Uncanny Bodies from Luna Press Publishing. Their nonfiction books They/Them/Their: A guide to nonbinary and genderqueer identities (2019) and Ace Voices: What it means to be asexual\, aromantic\, demi or gray-ace (2022)\, are published by Jessica Kingsley Publishing. They also edit fiction at Shoreline of Infinity magazine\, were the writer-in-residence at Lighthouse Bookshop from 2019 – 2022\, and in 2020 received a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award for fiction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nHemangini Gupta\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHemangini Gupta has a PhD in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies and research and teaching interests in transnational feminisms\, postcolonial and decolonial theory\, and gender and sexuality in the South. Her current research explores histories of scientific knowledge-formation that shape cities of the South by combining imperial ideas about the environment\, health\, and progress with racial neoliberalism. At the University of Edinburgh\, she is Associate Director of GenderED\, building university-wide collective expertise and explorations around interdisciplinary questions of gender and sexuality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event. Streaming will be live captioned. \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/tell-me-what-you-want-what-you-really-really-want-2/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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SUMMARY:Edinburgh Futures Conversations – Between Two Waters: A Performance
DESCRIPTION:This performance is part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Conversations series. \n\n\n\nThis show is part of our Futures Conversations series – Shaping our AI Futures – and explores the delicate and intricately evolving relationship between humans and machines\, through a dynamic dance between a dancer and a soft robot as the focal point. The representation of robots in art and media is often limited to their portrayal in science fiction\, but this performance aims to challenge that narrative by depicting robots in unconventional\, non-technological forms. \n\n\n\nThe performance delves into the complex process of human-machine coexistence and understanding\, exploring the relationship between the dancer and the robot as one of continuous learning\, acceptance\, rejection\, and reunion. Through this process of navigating each other’s spaces and understanding their unique capabilities\, the audience is offered a powerful metaphor for how humans and machines can learn to coexist and accept one another in the world. \n\n\n\nThis thought-provoking performance is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and the University of Lille INRIA Centre. \n\n\n\nPerformer Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nMadeline Squire\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage from ‘The Shimmering Extraordinary’\n\n\n\n\n\nMadeline Squire is a choreographer and dance artist based in the UK. She explores how her own experience with disability can stimulate creative approaches to her work. Madeline trained at Highgate Ballet School\, Cecchetti Associates\, Central School of Ballet Associates and was part of the CAT program at The Place\, London Contemporary Dance School. At sixteen\, she started at the English National Ballet School. She joined Scottish Ballet two years later in 2014 and began her professional career. \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, Madeline had a sudden isolated neurological attack and became unable to feel her hands and lost motion in her legs. Through rehabilitation she regained movement and returned to the stage. Some “limitations” remain in her left leg\, but rather than looking at these negatively\, Madeleine uses this experience to explore creativity and versatility into her work. \n\n\n\nIn 2019 Madeline was commissioned to choreograph Scottish Ballet’s first digital season\, in collaboration with artist in residence Zachery Eastwood-Bloom. In 2021\, she became the first Female Drosselmeyer in the Scottish Ballet’s Nutcracker\, a role normally performed by a male dancer. Find out more about Madeline’s work at https://www.madelinesquire.com/. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair \n\n\n\n\n\nLynne Craig\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynne Craig’s practice connects design\, technology\, education\, and business development; exploring the frontiers of emergent technologies and cultural change. Throughout her career she has built businesses\, created products\, designed systems for global audiences\, and continues to reimagine what the role of ‘making’ in design\, education and business looks like for tomorrow. Current roles include Senior Lecturer and Programme Director MA Design Informatics at University of Edinburgh. Previously Founder and Director of Digital Anthropology Lab\, London College of Fashion\, University of the Arts London\, UAL\, where she pioneered novel play-based design and engineering programs for fashion\, launching industry challenges\, investigating\, ‘draped interfaces\,’ IoT and collaborative digital performance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event. Streaming will be live captioned. \n\n\n\nStrobe lights will be used in the performance. \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event. \n\n\n\nEvent image features Madeleine Squire from ‘The Shimmering Extraordinary’
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/edinburgh-futures-conversations-between-two-waters-a-performance-2/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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SUMMARY:Edinburgh Futures Conversations – Shaping our AI Futures
DESCRIPTION:The flagship panel event opens the fourth in the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Conversations series. \n\n\n\nGiven the enormous advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, many believe humanity is on the threshold of the most profound technological revolution it has ever witnessed. AI already affects our everyday lives\, and our hopes and anxieties around AI run high. Some predict that further development of AI will put us on a path to human extinction while others believe it will usher in a new era of compassion\, non-violence\, and prosperity. \n\n\n\nAgainst a background of unrelenting cultural and geopolitical tensions\, looming planetary catastrophes\, and big challenges in global health\, justice\, and democracy\, will AI turn out to be yet another existential risk? Or will it help us address the major challenges of our times? \n\n\n\nIn this Futures Conversations event\, we bring together leading experts from the worlds of science\, politics\, and civil society to debate what our AI futures may bring\, and to develop ideas for what is needed to advance our collective ability to put AI to the best possible use. The conversation will build on a series of workshops where different visions of our AI future were explored\, and which had a specific emphasis on hearing the voices of people and communities that are traditionally underrepresented in these debates. \n\n\n\nAgainst the ideas developed in these workshops\, we will discuss questions such as\, who will determine our AI future\, how AI and humanity can evolve alongside each other\, what being human in an AI world will mean\, and how AI-driven economies and societies will work. Rather than providing principles for what AI itself “should be like”\, we aim to evolve into what we desire an “AI-ready” society could look like\, and into new ideas for how we might build this future. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPetra Molnar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPetra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specialising in technology\, migration\, and human rights. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and runs the Migration and Technology Monitor\, a multilingual archive of work interrogating technological experiments on people crossing borders\, funded by the Open Society Foundations. Petra is also the co-author of “Bots at the Gate\,” an internationally recognized report on the human rights impacts of automated decision-making in immigration and refugee systems. Petra is a 2022-2023 Fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Kate Crawford\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Kate Crawford is a leading international scholar of the social implications of artificial intelligence. She is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles\, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR in New York\, an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney\, and the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.  Her latest book\,  Atlas of AI (Yale\, 2021) won the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology\, the ASSI&T Best Information Science Book Award\, and was named one of the best books in 2021 by New Scientist and the Financial Times. Over her twenty-year research career\, she has also produced groundbreaking creative collaborations and visual investigations. Her project Anatomy of an AI System with Vladan Joler is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the V&A in London\, and was awarded with the Design of the Year Award in 2019 and included in the Design of the Decades by the Design Museum of London. Her collaboration with the artist Trevor Paglen\, Excavating AI\, won the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science. She has advised policy makers in the United Nations\, the White House\, and the European Parliament\, and she currently leads the Knowing Machines Project\, an international research collaboration that investigates the foundations of machine learning.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStuart Russell\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley\, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering\, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI and the Kavli Center for Ethics\, Science\, and the Public. He is a recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award and Research Excellence Award and held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris. In 2021 he received the OBE and gave the Reith Lectures. His book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI\, used in 1500 universities in 135 countries. The current emphasis of his research is on the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. He has developed a new global seismic monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty and is currently working to ban lethal autonomous weapons. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPascale Fung\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPascale Fung is a Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)\, and a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She is an expert on the Global Future Council\, a think tank for the World Economic Forum. She represents HKUST on Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society. She is on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She is a member of the IEEE Working Group to develop an IEEE standard – Recommended Practice for Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Her research team has won several best and outstanding awards at ACL\, ACL and NeurIPS workshops. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Isaac\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Isaac is a Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind\, Advisory Board Member of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group\, and Research Affiliate at Oxford University Centre for the Governance of AI. His research focuses on the societal impact and governance of emerging technologies. Prior to DeepMind\, William served as an Open Society Foundations Fellow. His research has been featured in publications such as Science\, New York Times\, and the MIT Technology Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Philosophy. She directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and co-directs the AHRC’s Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem programme. She is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Vallor’s research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character\, and maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and artificial intelligence. Her work includes advising academia\, government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Rovatsos\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Rovatsos is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh where he is also head of the Bayes Centre\, the University’s Data Science and AI innovation hub. He has over 20 years of experience in AI research\, working primarily on systems where artificial or human agents collaborate or compete with each other. His work has focused on ethical aspects of AI such as fairness\, diversity-awareness\, and responsibility. He has published around 100 scientific articles and has been involved in research projects that have received over £18 million of external funding. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event. \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/edinburgh-futures-conversations-shaping-our-ai-futures/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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SUMMARY:Love Machine: Spring 2023 EFI Event Season Launch
DESCRIPTION:This event marks the opening of the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Spring 2023 season and is by invitation only. After this event\, bookings will officially open to everyone for our Spring 2023 programme of events\, created in collaboration with partners across the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, will run from March to May 2023! \n\n\n\nOur title for this season is Love Machine and focuses on interdisciplinarity of artificial Intelligence\, data and machine learning technologies. This theme aligns with the University of Edinburgh’s fourth Futures Conversation as well as celebrations of 60 years of AI at the University. Through it we will explore the interconnections of AI\, data and machine learning with other disciplines\, including the arts and humanities. And we will invite\, provoke and convene open discussions and thinking from students\, researchers\, different disciplines\, industry and business\, and communities from across the University and beyond.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/love-machine-spring-2023-efi-event-season-launch/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221202T193000
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SUMMARY:An Island of Sound: J. R. Carpenter with Jules Rawlinson
DESCRIPTION:From the classical period through the early modern\, tales abounded of distant islands inhabited by demons\, devils\, evil spirits\, and all manner of winged creatures. The Sirens lured sailors to shipwreck with singing voices. The sprite Ariel conjures up a storm. The stories we tell ourselves to make sense of wind. \n\n\n\nAn Island of Sound is a new browser-based work by J. R. Carpenter exploring phantom islands as weather phenomenon through an assemblage of found images\, algorithmically generated texts\, live performance\, and sound. The sound-world created by Jules Rawlinson for the live performance of this work responds to\, supports\, and transforms J R Carpenter’s visual and textual imagery. Field recordings\, wind synthesis\, generative sample streams and data-driven sound processing are collaged and combined with spoken word to create ambiguous and shifting sonic narratives and spectral resonances. \n\n\n\nSpeaker/Performer Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJ. R. Carpenter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJ. R. Carpenter is an artist\, writer\, and researcher working across performance\, print\, and digital media. Questions of place\, displacement\, migration\, and climate change have long pervaded her work. Her web-based work has been presented around the world and is widely taught. Her digital poem\, The Gathering Cloud\, won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her debut poetry collection\, An Ocean of Static\, was highly commended for the Forward Prize 2018. Her web-app\, This is a Picture of Wind\, won the Dot Award for Digital Literature 2015. A print collection by the same name was listed in The Guardian’s Best Poetry Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021. For more information visit: https://luckysoap.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJules Rawlinson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJules Rawlinson is an audiovisual composer\, improviser and designer working in solo and collaborative settings within international networks of practice\, and a Senior Lecturer in Digital Design at Edinburgh College of Art in the University of Edinburgh. Jules’ solo works are characterised by filigree layers of detail and texture in sound design\, images and musical material such as that in Interval and Instance (2018-22)\, an audiovisual exploration of speed\, motion and scale in archival material from pioneering scientific filmmaker Eric Lucey\, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2018. Recent outputs make innovative use of machine learning and AI design in corpus-based aesthetics of transformation\, such as in wnd (2020)\, a rich and immersive audiovisual experience in a first-person virtual environment. Other projects include multimedia works for New Media Scotland\, Glenmorangie\, and the New Radiophonic Workshop. For more information visit http://www.pixelmechanics.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChaired by Maria Fusco.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/an-island-of-sound-j-r-carpenter-with-jules-rawlinson/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:The Fight for Climate after Covid-19: A conversation with Alice C. Hill
DESCRIPTION:The catastrophic risks of pandemics and climate change carry deep uncertainty as to when they will occur\, how they will unfold\, and how much damage they will do. The most important question is how we can face these risks to minimize them most. \n\n\n\nAlice C. Hill’s book\, The Fight for Climate after COVID-19\, draws on the troubled and uneven COVID-19 experience to illustrate the critical need to ramp up resilience rapidly and effectively on a global scale. Just as our society has transformed itself to meet the challenge of coronavirus\, so too will we need to adapt our thinking and our policies to combat the ever-increasing threat of climate change. Unapologetic and clear-eyed\, The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 helps us understand why the time has come to prepare for the world as it will be\, rather than as it once was. \n\n\n\nIn this author discussion Alice exposes parallels between the underutilized measures that governments should have taken to contain the spread of COVID-19. Measures such as early action\, cross-border planning\, and bolstering emergency preparation – are steps leaders can take now to mitigate the impacts of climate change. \n\n\n\nSpeaker/Performer Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nAlice C. Hill\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlice C. Hill is an expert on building resilience to catastrophic risks. She previously served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director for Resilience Policy on the National Security Council staff where she led the development of national policy\, including executive orders related to natural disasters\, national security\, and climate change. Prior to this\, she served as senior counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). After years of working alongside public health and resilience experts crafting policy to build both pandemic and climate change preparedness\, Alice currently serves as the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations and was a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. In 2020\, Yale University and the Op-Ed Project awarded her the Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Grant \n\n\n\n\nLiz Grant is Director of the Global Health Academy and Assistant Principal Global Health at the University of Edinburgh. She is responsible for developing and supporting global health partnerships with colleagues in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) communities. She is a co-director of the University of Edinburgh’s Global Compassion Initiative\, developing work on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)\, the science of compassion\, and the contribution that faith communities make to the SDGs. Liz currently chairs the Research Committee for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health\, (CUGH)\, an association of over 170 Academic institutions training in Global Health. She has worked for NHS Lothian’s Public Health Directorate leading an HIV partnership between the NHS and Zambia. She has been an advisor to a number of global health charities and serves as a trustee for CBM Scotland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook details: \n\n\n\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc \n\n\n\nISBN: 9780197549704 \n\n\n\nLength: 224 pages \n\n\n\nThe Fight for Climate after Covid-19 – A Watch Party\n\n\n\nAlternatively\, come together to watch the online discussion with peers. The Data + Design Lab is hosting an IRL watch party for The Fight for Climate after Covid-19: A conversation with Alice C. Hill at Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Newington\, EH8 9AB. \n\n\n\nThis space is open to all. Book a spot here…
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-fight-for-climate-after-covid-19-a-conversation-with-alice-c-hill/
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:The Fight for Climate after Covid-19 - A Watch Party
DESCRIPTION:This is an opportunity for the EFI and its extended community to come together and join a live viewing of the online event\, ‘The Fight for Climate after Covid-19: A conversation with Alice C. Hill‘ in a casual and relaxed atmosphere.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-fight-for-climate-after-covid-19-a-watch-party/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:Writing the Air: A writing masterclass with Anthony Anaxagorou
DESCRIPTION:In this participatory workshop\, poet Anthony Anaxagorou will be asking what happens if we expand the idea of ‘air’ or first breath to mean a new beginning. Can the idea of air invoke fresh possibilities or social reform? Can air and breath can be reshaped to move beyond the conventional understanding of these terms? How does air and breathe relate to other aspects of the political landscape such as Brexit\, the Black Lives Matter movement and Covid-19? And what commonalities does environment share with these issues? Join us for an online interactive workshop where we’ll be reading and writing poetry which looks to branch out and draw new distinctions between seemingly unconnected ideas and events. \n\n\n\nAttendees with a formal writing practice are welcome but it is not required. This event is open to all participants from the age of 14 and up. \n\n\n\nBiography\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Anaxagorou\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet\, an award-winning fiction writer\, essayist\, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published widely and he has also appeared on BBC\, ITV\, Vice UK\, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His second collection After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year. In 2020 he published How To Write It with Merky Books; a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing as well as the craft of poetry and fiction along with the wider publishing industry. Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken\, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre\, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press. His forthcoming poetry collection Heritage Aesthetics will be published by Granta in 2022.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/writing-the-air-a-writing-masterclass-with-anthony-anaxagorou/
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:Technomoral Conversations: Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:What is the impact of AI on the planet? There are reasons to hope that data-driven efficiencies and insights can help produce innovative solutions to the climate emergency\, touching areas such as energy\, biodiversity monitoring and conservation\, transportation\, water conservation\, and agriculture\, among others. On the other hand\, there are also real concerns about the climate cost of producing AI models in the first place. Researchers have found that training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes. Will AI turn out to be a net negative or a net positive for the sustainability of life on the planet? \n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation on sustainability and AI\, featuring a panel of experts who are tackling different facets of this challenge. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Shannon Vallor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor is the Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She is the Baillie Gifford Chair in Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She also holds an appointment in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy and chairs the University’s AI and Data Ethics Advisory Board. Shannon’s research explores the philosophy and ethics of emerging science and technologies. Current projects focus on the impact of emerging technologies – particularly those involving automation and artificial intelligence – on the moral and intellectual habits\, skills and virtues of human beings: our character. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\nMirella Lapata\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMirella Lapata is Professor of natural language processing in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on getting computers to understand\, reason with\, and generate natural language. She is the first recipient (2009) of the British Computer Society and Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS/IRSG) Karen Sparck Jones award and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh\, the ACL\, and Academia Europaea. Mirella has also received best paper awards in leading NLP conferences and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research\, the Transactions of the ACL\, and Computational Linguistics. She was president of SIGDAT (the group that organises EMNLP) in 2018. She has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant\, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award\, and a UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ronita Bardhan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ronita Bardhan is Associate Professor of Sustainable Built Environment at the Department of Architecture\, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on data-driven design for built environments that respond by reducing health and energy burdens in the warming climate. She currently works on humid heat health and energy burdens due to the built environment design. Bardhan combines architectural engineering\, AI and machine learning with social sciences to develop built environment design solutions. She has developed novel methods to inform building and city design by combining physics-based building design optimisation with qualitative socio-economic\, socio-cultural norms\, occupant behaviour and community norms data. She has conducted heat-health & energy research in diverse socio-economic settings in the United Kingdom\, India\, Ethiopia\, South Africa\, Indonesia etc. Bardhan specialises in data-driven design for developing context-specific solutions in the affordable housing sector. Bardhan is the Director of MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies (MAUS) and leads the Sustainable Design Group at the university. Her impactful work on developing design solutions for reducing the burdens of tuberculosis\, heat health and poor indoor air quality in slum rehabilitation housing has received immense traction from policymakers. Bardhan currently advises government agencies on energy efficiency and heat health in affordable housing and has written over 130 academic articles on the health and environmental design of the affordable residential built environment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ramit Debnath\n\n\n\n\nDr Ramit Debnath is a computational social scientist and a Gates Scholar based at the University of Cambridge. He is passionate about energy and climate justice. Ramit is the inaugural Cambridge Zero Fellow and a visiting faculty associate in Computational Social Science at Caltech\, and a sustainability fellow at Churchill College\, University of Cambridge. Ramit works at the intersection of data science and public policy to support climate action\, primarily focussing on developing novel approaches to natural language processing\, machine learning\, AI and qualitative analysis to enable a people-centric and just net-zero transition. He is passionate about energy and climate justice as well as countering misinformation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Bean\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Bean is a physicist\, engineer and CEO of Materials Nexus\, a deep-tech start-up that originated at Cambridge University and within the Carbon13 Venture Builder. His ground-breaking\, AI-enabled Materials Discovery Platform transforms the way that new materials are designed using a rapid automated process and advanced quantum calculations that give high accuracy at larger scales. He work with partners to accelerate development of next-generation materials to reduce global CO2e emissions. Jonathon is a trustee at the charity Science Projects and has teaching roles at Trinity College Cambridge and London South Bank University.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/technomoral-conversations-sustainability-and-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:Nomad Century: Gaia Vince in conversation with Elizabeth Cripps
DESCRIPTION:Author Gaia Vince draws attention to mass migration and climate change at a time when huge swathes of the world are becoming uninhabitable. \n\n\n\n‘Gaia Vince’s new book should be read not just by every politician\, but by every person on the planet\, because it lays out\, much more clearly than any existing scientific assessment\, the world we are creating through global heating’ – Observer \n\n\n\nWhile the climate catastrophe is finally getting the attention it deserves\, the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. While we must do everything we can to mitigate the impact of climate change\, the truth is that huge swathes of the world are becoming uninhabitable. \n\n\n\nIn Nomad Century\, Gaia Vince provides an examination of this most pressing issue facing humanity. In conversation with Elizabeth Cripps\, Vince discusses how migration brings benefits not only to migrants themselves\, but to host countries\, many of which face demographic crises and labour shortages. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nGaia Vince\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGaia Vince is a journalist\, writer and broadcaster\, and an honorary senior research fellow at UCL. She writes for publications including the Observer and Guardian\, and presents programmes on BBC R4. She is the author of the ground-breaking work Adventures in The Anthropocene for which she spent two and half years travelling to over 50 countries to map the ways humans are changing the planet forever. She draws on this\, along with a wealth of eye-opening data and original reporting\, and her own first-hand experience of the state of the planet. Gaia shows how migration brings benefits not only to migrants themselves\, but to host countries\, many of which face demographic crises and labour shortages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Elizabeth Cripps\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Elizabeth Cripps is a writer and philosopher. She is a senior lecturer in political theory at the University of Edinburgh and the author of What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care (Bloomsbury\, 2022)\, as well as the forthcoming Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher’s Guide to Doing Right by your Kids – and Everyone Else (MIT Press). Elizabeth has written opinion pieces for the Guardian\, the Herald and the Big Issue and appeared on podcasts and radio shows\, including for BBC Radio\, WBAI\, and Newstalk. As a former journalist\, she worked for the Financial Times Group. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook details: \n\n\n\nNomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/nomad-century-gaia-vince-in-conversation-with-elizabeth-cripps/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:What My Body Can/t Remember
DESCRIPTION:Since 2014\, Palestinian dancer and choreographer Farah Saleh has been creating an Archive of Gestures through the re-enactment\, transformation\, and analyses of bodily gestures and movements. In What My Body Can/t Remember\, Saleh explores what her body can and can’t remember of her life in Ramallah in 2002 when\, living under curfew\, she returned to dancing after years of interruption. Working with filmmaker Owa Barua\, Saleh recalls the daily gestures of her life exploring her memory of a period when her domestic space was her only site of physical freedom. First commissioned by The Fruitmarket Gallery and Dance International Glasgow in 2019\, What My Body Can/t Remember interrogates the retrieval\, integrity\, and degradation of embodied memory. \n\n\n\nThis performance is supported by the Centre for Data\, Culture & Society. \n\n\n\nPerformers\n\n\n\n\n\nFarah Saleh\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFarah Saleh is a Palestinian dancer and choreographer active in Palestine\, Europe and the US. She has studied linguistic and cultural mediation in Italy and in parallel continued her studies in contemporary dance. Since 2010 she has taken part in local and international projects with Sareyyet Ramallah Dance Company (Palestine)\, the Royal Flemish Theatre and Les Ballets C de la B (Belgium)\, Mancopy Dance Company (Denmark/Lebanon)\, Siljehom/Christophersen (Norway) and Candoco Dance Company (UK). Saleh teaches dance\, and coordinates and curates artistic projects with the Palestinian Circus School\, Sareyyet Ramallah and the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. In 2016 she co-founded Sareyyet Ramallah Dance Summer School. She was an Associate Artist at Dance Base in Edinburgh 2017-2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOwa Barua\n\n\n\n\nOwa Barua is an Edinburgh-based moving image artist\, freelance videographer and editor\, workshop facilitator and community worker. His work has been selected and awarded at several international film festivals\, and also installed at the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)\, Southbank Centre (London)\, and at the University of Bath Mediawall. As a freelancer filmmaker he has created documentary and promotional films for London arts organisations such as East London Dance\, Stratford Circus Arts Centre\, Move The World and Sadlers Wells. He has produced and directed community-based film projects for organizations such as Rathbone Society and Diverse Dance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be chaired by Lucy Weir.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/what-my-body-can-t-remember/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:EFI Student Photography Competition: The Future of Climate Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a drink and delicious\, celebratory treat as we reveal the winners of the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Student Photography Competition and view a selection of the submitted photographs. \n\n\n\nProfessor Liz Grant\, Assistant Principal (Global Health) and Director of the Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh\, will announce the winners and speak to the themes raised in the submissions. \n\n\n\nThis competition has asked University of Edinburgh Students to respond creatively to the theme of this year’s University of Edinburgh Futures Conversations – The Future of Climate Justice and the challenge: What does climate justice look like to you? \n\n\n\nWe hope this collection of images will stimulate further conversation and action following on from the Edinburgh Futures Conversations\, and will chime with important work taking place at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). \n\n\n\nImage credit: Gintare Kulyte
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/efi-student-photography-competition-the-future-of-climate-justice/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab
DESCRIPTION:Utopia is a ‘no-space’ for contemplation\, innovation and collaboration. The term utopia was coined from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia\, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The word comes from Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόπος (“place”) and means “no-place”\, and strictly describes any non-existent society ‘described in considerable detail’. \n\n\n\nOur Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’\, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present. Our labs curate interactions between academics\, artists\, entrepreneurs\, students and audiences in person and online globally. We are interested in that which is provocative and irreverent as well as that which is nurturing and joyful. Utopia questions are catalysts for inquiry\, learning and creativity. With an emphasis on innovative and experimental ways of communicating\, we will explore meditation\, dialogue and co-creation with the help of a facilitator. Participants consist of University of Edinburgh staff and students\, and non-University practitioners. \n\n\n\nIn this Utopia Lab session\, invited speakers will present visions of their Utopia\, which we will (individually or in groups\, as preferred) respond to by creating our own artistic and creative mini-Utopias. We will consider what Utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change. \n\n\n\n\n11am-12pm: Introductions and Presentations\n\n\n\n12pm-1pm: Lunch and Dreaming/Making\n\n\n\n1pm-2pm: Sharing\n\n\n\n\nLunch and materials for creating will be provided. The lab will also include meditation\, poetry reading/listening and simple movement and breathing exercises. All body types and levels of experience welcome. \n\n\n\nSpeaker biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nGareth Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nComposer and songwriter Gareth Williams lives in Edinburgh\, where he makes work that ranges from opera\, theatre and songwriting to chamber and orchestral music. He is a Chancellor’s Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art\, where he lectures in composition. He seeks to find new participants and audiences for opera and music theatre with his work\, and to shed light on stories and communities that have been overlooked\, exploring ideas of identity and vulnerability in his vocal writing. His music is often site-specific and responsive\, with performances happening in lighthouses\, whisky distilleries\, nuclear bunkers\, and libraries. He creates award winning work for companies such as Scottish Opera\, Red Note Ensemble\, National Theatre of Scotland\, Ulster Orchestra\, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra\, Tapestry Opera\, Theatre Passe Muraille\, Bridge Theatre\, Hebrides Ensemble\, Chamber Music Scotland\, and Noise Opera. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSufee Yama\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSufee Yama is a Creative Technologist specialized in immersive media storytelling. Sufee works across Interactive AR\, Interactive VR film and animation\, 360 video\, Mixed Reality Performance and Mixed Reality video. Her personal R&D experiments are brought to use for brands’ commercials\, documentaries\, movies\, events and exhibitions with clients like Meta\, Snap Inc.\, The Guardian US\, The Japan Foundation\, Goethe-Institut\, FABLAB \, Thailand Government Agencies and were mentioned on platforms like The Museum of Other Realities\, Snap AR\, FritzAI and Lenslist. Being an active member in the creative VR/AR community\, Sufee hosts workshops and activities for cultural organizations and Universities. Passionate about the future of storytelling and new media\, Sufee thinks major parts of current Fine art industries will unavoidably needed to transform their work format to thrive. She founded Utopia Lab Studio(www.utopialab.co)\, an experimental creative AR/VR studio focusing on the future of storytelling based on the intersection of Fine Art\, Design and Business in the hope that she can help bring real world Fine Art including performing art into AR/VR space. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSargent\, Lyman Tower (2005). Rüsen\, Jörn; Fehr\, Michael; Reiger\, Thomas W. (eds.). The Necessity of Utopian Thinking: A cross-national perspective. Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Report). New York: Berghahn Books. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-57181-440-1.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:Half-Earth Socialism: Ambitious speculation on possible futures
DESCRIPTION:Join a lively discussion with authors of the thrilling and provocative book\, Half-Earth Socialism\, as well as the designers who created a video game based on the book. The event will feature discussions and Q&A with the authors and designers\, as well as a chance to explore the game! \n\n\n\nHalf-Earth Socialism makes clear that while we must humbly accept that humanity cannot fully understand or control the earth\, we can plan new energy systems\, large-scale rewilding\, and food production for the common good. Over the next generation\, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only ‘solutions’ on offer are toothless cap-and-trade programmes\, catastrophic geoengineering schemes\, and privatized conservation\, which will do nothing to reverse the damage suffered by the biosphere. Indeed\, these mainstream approaches assume that hyper-consumerism in the Global North can continue unabated. It can’t. \n\n\n\nWhat we can do\, environmental scholars Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass argue\, is strive for a society able to ensure high living standards while stabilizing the environment. This means: \n\n\n\n\nRewilding half the earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversity\n\n\n\nA rapid transition to renewable energy\, paired with drastic cuts in consumption by the world’s wealthiest\n\n\n\nGlobal veganism to cut down on energy and land use\n\n\n\nWorldwide socialist planning to efficiently and equitably manage production\n\n\n\nThe involvement of everyone—even you!\n\n\n\n\nThe authors collaborated with designers from the Jain Family Institute and Trust to create a video game based on the book which can be viewed at play.half.earth. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nTroy Vettese\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTroy Vettese is an environmental historian and a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute\, where he is affiliated with the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He studies the history of environmental economics\, energy\, and animal life under capitalism. His writing has appeared in Bookforum\, New Left Review\, The Guardian\, n+1 and many more publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrancis Tseng\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrancis Tseng is a software engineer and lead independent researcher at the Jain Family Institute. He primarily builds modeling tools\, simulations\, and procedural systems. In the past he taught at the New School\, was co-publisher of The New Inquiry\, and was a fellow at The New York Times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSon La Pham\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSon La Pham lives in Berlin and works as a graphic designer focusing on new forms for technology and the web. His digital work has been published in It’s Nice That\, Hoverstates\, Loadmore and Fonts In Use. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Parry\n\n\n\n\nHeather Parry is a fiction writer and editor originally from Rotherham\, South Yorkshire. She is the co-founder and Editorial Director of Extra Teeth magazine\, co-host of the Teenage Scream podcast and the Scottish Senior Policy & Liaison Manager for the Society of Authors\, a trade union for writers. In 2021 she created the free-access Illustrated Freelancer’s Guide with artist Maria Stoian. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Details: \n\n\n\nHalf-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction\, Climate Change and Pandemics
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/half-earth-socialism-ambitious-speculation-on-possible-futures/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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