Data Relations Summer School

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) 111 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC
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Taking the exhibition Data Relations as a point of departure, Data Relations Summer School comprises a series of experimental workshops, discussions, performances and talks at ACCA and other venues, with an emphasis on pedagogy and the sharing of ideas. Presenters and participants will come together to respond to critical and creative approaches to questions regarding data relations.


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Economies of Virtue Book Launch Event and Celebration

Melbourne Law School The Woodward Convention Centre, Melbourne, VIC
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Join us in celebrating the launch of Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI, edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Monique Mann and Declan Kuch published open access by the Institute of Network Cultures in late 2022.


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Angieszka Leszczynski on “Urban platform materialities: aesthetics, glitches, amenities”

Kaleide Theatre 360 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC
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This talk attends to how urban platforms materially ‘show up’ in cities, and where they materialize. Drawing on a range of empirical instances from North American cities, the talk situates and traces urban platform materialities in three registers: aesthetics, spatiality, and amenitization.


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The Web Search Revolution

Kaleide Theatre 360 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC
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This year marks two important anniversaries: 25 years since the Google company was founded, and the 30th anniversary of the release of the first web search engine, JumpStation. This one-day interdisciplinary symposium in Melbourne and online brings together leading thinkers to examine the past, present and future of web search - Google, ChatGPT, Bing, and beyond.


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Mapping the Digital Gap 2023 Outcomes Report Launch

Online
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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and Telstra invite you to attend the online launch of the first Mapping the Digital Gap Annual Outcomes Report. Hear from leading industry and academic experts on the first year findings from ten diverse remote First Nations communities across Australia.


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Do Labs Have Politics?

Deakin Downtown Melbourne, VIC
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Join Maxigas in discussing the role of academic labs in bringing about desired futures. The “science shop” movement pioneered in the Netherlands directly linked academic institutions with social movements to counterbalance techniques of management tied to capital.


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