[spectre] SPECTRE Digest, Vol 211, Issue 13

Thu Sep 17 10:54:31 CEST 2020

Hello,

Torque Editions present a playful new work using AI with the news archive
at The British Library
Sign up for the talk 11am GMT on 24th Sept
https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/events/ai-and-the-headline-archive/

This event is a launch for a new artwork that uses a kind of artificial
intelligence called recursive neural nets (RNN to synthesise
past-present-future headlines. At the event, we will talk about how
*multiplicities* of human and machine intelligences have much more
immediate positive potential than 'the singularity'. The artwork allows you
to combine your own headline predictions with the historical archives at
the British Library, to produce a weird new language plasma future
newspaper cover. It's a collaboration between Nathan Jones, Tom Schofield
and Sam Skinner. torquetorque.net

The project is called "Crash Blossoms", after instances where headlinese
produces a weird semantic ambiguity, like ""McDonald's fries the holy grail
for potato farmers"

best,

Nathan Jones
@nathan_lica

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> CALL FOR PROPOSALS to host the 9th International Conference on the
> Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology: Re: 2022The Media Art
> Histories Board invites applications to host the 9th International
> Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology.
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> The international conference series, which was inaugurated in 2005 in
> Banff, Canada, has since been held in several international venues
> around the globe including Berlin in 2007, Melbourne 2009, Liverpool
> 2011, Riga 2013, Montreal 2015, Krems/Vienna 2017, and Aalborg 2019. A
> significant MediaArtHistories stream will be held in Brazil at CIHA in
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> conference
> is open until Dec 1, 2020. The conference series aims to engage the
> growing community of scholars from a range of disciplines including
> art
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> intersecting fields of the histories of media art, science and
> technology. The host of the conference in 2022 will have the
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> South & North are highly encouraged.
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> Andreas BROECKMANN, Leuphana Universität
> Andres BURBANO, Universidad de los Andes
> Sean CUBITT, Goldsmiths College, University of London
> Oliver GRAU, Danube University
> Inge HINTERWALDNER, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
> Erkki HUHTAMO, University of California Los Angeles
> Machiko KUSAHARA, Waseda University, Tokyo
> Katja KWASTEK, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> Gunalan NADARAJAN, University of Michigan
> Chris SALTER, Concordia University and Hexagram, Montreal
> Paul THOMAS, UNSW Sydney
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> Prof. Dr. Douglas KAHN, UNSW Sydney
> Prof. Dr. Martin KEMP, Oxford University
> Prof. Tim LENOIR, Duke University
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Editor at Torque Editions

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