Information retrieval has for decades focused on finding digital documents, including documents that were born digital and those that have been digitised. But there are also enormous collections of physical documents, on paper or microfilm for example, that are not likely to be fully digitised in our lifetimes.

Experience an exclusive advanced screening of the Superbots short film, created during Brentwood Secondary College's 2023 Superbots program, before its official release later this year.

‘This Hideous Replica’ exhibition and public program at RMIT Gallery, First Site, Capital Theatre and more, curated by ADM+S investigator Joel Stern and collaborator Sean Dockray as part of Now or Never festival. Opening 23 August, 2024.

What is it like for people interacting with digital government systems? The Australian Government aspires to lead the world in digital innovation. Initiatives in digital governance have seen the introduction of algorithms for NDIS support planning. While the government's vision promises efficiency and modernisation, the reality is far more complex.

Machine Listening (Joel Stern, Sean Dockray, James Parker), will present a newly commissioned work as part of the Soft Centre program at Now or Never festival, held at the Trades Hall on August 31. The work is titled Songbook (5-x).

An open-form seminar and workshop on the politics and aesthetics of AI-generated music led by media artist, theorist and musician Eryk Salvaggio. Eryk will discuss his work and ideas on algorithmic culture, departing from the recent text Gaussian Pop: 14 Theses in which he attempts to situate AI music as an emerging ‘genre, or a movement of sorts, that is distinct from the sounds made by people.

Join us on November 7 for Model Collapse, a slow drift through some sundry spaces of the University, where performances, lectures, improvisations and interventions unfold over the course of the day in basements, hallways, libraries, and lecture rooms. This is a school within a school, a parasite within a parasite. You will not find classes managed by overwrought content management systems that drain the life force out of ideas.

You are invited to this public event at which a group of experts, including the Hon. Jennifer Coate AO, Prof Kimberlee Weatherall, Prof Jeannie Paterson, Professor Julian Webb, Emma Poole (Vic Bar) and Claire Bennett (VCAT member) will consider the thorniest questions that arise from the Victorian Law Reform Commission's (VLRC) inquiry into Artificial Intelligence in Victoria’s Courts and Tribunals.

Human-engineered systems have long required a recursive override that prevents the unchecked execution of system procedures from resulting in undesirable outcomes. In the age of complex engineered systems whose failure can predictably harm or kill those using them, this has led to the increasingly sophisticated design of killswitches, failsafes, and overrides.

Join panelists as they discuss ecology, crisis, and witnessing inspired by Prof. Michael Richardson’s new book, Nonhuman Witnessing.

Join us to celebrate the launch of Associate Professor Michael Richardson’s new book  Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World  with refreshments and words from Larissa Hjorth. Out now with Duke University Press, the book calls for the radical transformation of how we understand witnessing in an age of crises.