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SUMMARY:Artists’ Take on AI + the Environment
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Artists Angie Abdilla (ANU)\, Laresa Kosloff (RMIT)\, Rebecca Najdowski (RMIT) in conversation with Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris (UNSW/ADM+S).” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\nWhen the Buggles wrote their now infamously catchy Video Killed the Radio Star in 1979\, they were apparently inspired by J.G. Ballard’s 1960 short story The Sound-Sweep. In both works\, the protagonists are experiencing an era-defining transformation: the movement of art forms and rapid technological change. They sing\, We can’t rewind\, we’ve gone too far… The same could be said for our current moment and the rise of generative and other AI technologies. Yet very little research is asking artists about their relationship to the intersection of art\, these new automated technologies and their impacts on the natural world. \nWelcome to an evening of film screenings and artist in-conversations with leading contemporary artists Professor Angie Abdilla (ANU)\, Dr Laresa Kosloff (RMIT) and Dr Rebecca Najdowski (RMIT)\, moderated by Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris (UNSW/ADM+S). Reworking the iconic synth-pop song\, this evening shares insights into how contemporary artists are responding to the emergence of artificial intelligence\, what creative practice reveals about the environmental implications of AI technologies\, and how they variously use\, avoid\, challenge and critique the environmental dimensions of AI. \nThe event at Capitol Theatre is a rare chance to see these new and critical video works\, and to hear from the artists\, Angie Abdilla\, Laresa Kosloff and Rebecca Najdowski\, directly. Drawing from recent ADM+S research on the artistic strategies and ecological dimensions of these technologies as part of the special project\, the artists will share the strategies\, artistic methodologies and creative interventions they engage to consider the ecological and creative tactics of critical engagement with AI in media art today. \nThis event is part of a study conducted by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris and Deborah Lupton as part of the ADM+S signature project ADM\, Ecosystems and Multispecies Relationships. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#00BF63″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Fartists-take-on-ai-and-the-environment-tickets-1999078881749%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator%26keep_tld%3Dtrue|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1789104858797{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”33562″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””] \nAngie Abdilla\nProfessor Angie Abdilla palawa is a professor of culture and technology at the School of Cybernetics at ANU\, and the founder and director of Old Ways\, New. In her various roles as a strategic designer\, creative practitioner\, and consultant\, Angie advocates for Indigenous peoples\, knowledges\, and knowledge systems as foundational to technology automation through design and cultural practice. Her published research interrogates the praxis of Indigenous deeptime technologies and Artificial Intelligence\, which continue to be informed by the Indigenous Protocols and AI working group (IP//AI)\, which she co-founded. As a creative practitioner\, she works across film and video installation as an exhibiting artist. She created the company’s strategic design methodology\, Country Centered Design\, leading projects for the public and private sectors over the past decade. Angie continues to advise on the cultural and ethical affordances of automated systems and technologies internationally and locally.\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”33563″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Rebecca Najdowski\nDr Rebecca Najdowski is a Naarm (Melbourne)-based artist-researcher investigating how imaging technologies mediate nature and the climate crisis. Working with the materiality of analogue and digital processes\, she alters habitual ways of seeing – and therefore relating to – nature. She is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University where she co-leads the Imaging Futures Lab\, an international network exploring expanded imaging practices. Her work has been presented internationally\, including at Museum Belvédère (Netherlands)\, Belfast Photo Festival (Northern Ireland)\, and the Centre for Contemporary Photography (Australia). Recent publications include co-editing Confronting the Climate Crisis: Activism\, Technology and Ecoaesthetics (Palgrave MacMillan\, 2025) and her monograph Ambient Pressure (Tall Poppy Press\, 2023).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”33564″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Laresa Kosloff \nDr Laresa Kosloff makes performative videos\, short films\, audio works and participatory artworks. Her practice examines representational strategies\, each one linked by an interest in the body and its agency within the everyday. Some of her projects are structured around language\, whilst others use slapstick physicality to communicate ideas. Recent projects include a series of satirical short films made from commercial stock footage purchased online. These films explore neoliberalism and corporate culture\, ecological breakdown\, the billionaire class\, artificial intelligence and the military industrial complex. Her most recent film titled ‘The Bleaching’ premiered at e-Flux Screening Room in New York in 2024. Laresa is committed to not using AI within her art practice. She is a senior lecturer in RMIT School of Art and is represented by Sutton Gallery in Naarm.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”27829″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris\nDr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris is an Australian and Swedish curator\, writer and researcher with expertise in eco-aesthetics and specialisation in water. Based on Dharug and Gundungurra Country\, she is a Senior Research Fellow at UNSW and part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Bronwyn maintains an independent curatorial practice and her first monograph was released with Routledge Environmental Humanities Series in 2024 and is titled The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/artists-take-on-ai-and-the-environment/
LOCATION:The Capitol\, 113 Swanston Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,Public Event
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SUMMARY:Data Donation and the AIO Platform
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join this in-person hands-on workshop to learn how data donation can unlock personalised platform data and build your own research project using the Australian Internet Observatory’s free national research infrastructure.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Digital platforms shape how people find news\, shop\, learn and talk to each other\, but they are hard to study. Access to this data is limited using existing means\, such as API and scraping\, and the way content is delivered is highly personalised for each user\, which makes it more complicated. \nHow do we study such data? In this workshop\, we offer data donation as an alternative method to study platforms. The approach is: people request the data a platform holds about them\, review it\, and choose what to share with a research project. In this hands-on workshop\, the Australian Internet Observatory (AIO) team will introduce data donation and show you the AIO Platform\, free national infrastructure for running data donation studies with data download packages from platforms such as Instagram\, YouTube\, TikTok and ChatGPT. The platform was built at UQ. \nYou will: \n\nlearn what a data download package contains\, and how to read one;\nwork through the ethics of donation studies: consent\, data minimisation and participant burden;\nbuild and test your own data donation project on the platform.\n\nNo coding experience is needed.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1787105658845{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0″][vc_column_text css=””]This lecture explores how privacy law has addressed the datafication of user information and considers the lessons this may hold for copyright law\, which has struggled to grapple with the datafication of creativity.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”custom” custom_background=”#FFD600″ custom_text=”#000000″ css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Fcreativity-as-data-tickets-1991161485604%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Speaker” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”” el_class=”boldText”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1787105650762{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0″][vc_column_text css=””]Xiyin Tang is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Tang’s research focuses on the roles that technological evolution and new modes of dissemination play in the law of intellectual property. Her current research addresses how IP laws should respond to artificial intelligence and its effect on creative labor markets. Past writings have addressed the use of both public and private mechanisms—in the form of class action litigation and confidential contracts\, respectively—as responses to mass digitization and\, with it\, potentially\, mass infringement. Her publications have appeared in the Columbia Law Review\, Michigan Law Review\, NYU Law Review\, and Yale Law Journal\, among others. She is also a co-author of sections of the leading copyright law treatise Nimmer on Copyright. \nTang received her B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing summa cum laude from Columbia University. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School\, where she received the Neale M. Albert Prize for Best Paper on Art Law and twice received the Nathan Burkan Memorial Prize for Best Paper on Copyright Law. During law school\, Tang served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Image credit: Daniela Zampieri / Better images of AI[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1776305698312{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”974″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Daniel Angus\nProf. Daniel Angus is Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication\, and Director of QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre. Daniel’s research examines issues at the intersection of technology and society\, with a focus on artificial intelligence\, automation\, misinformation\, and new methods to study the digital society.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”11654″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Nic Carah\nProf Nic Carah is Director of the Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies in the Faculty of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences and Professor in the School of Communication and Arts. He is an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society\, and a Chief Investigator on ARC Discovery and Linkage projects. Nicholas’ research examines the algorithmic and participatory advertising model of digital media platforms\, with a sustained focus on digital alcohol marketing.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”7751″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Amanda Lawrence\nDr Amanda Lawrence is Engagement Lead at Australian Internet Observatory based at RMIT University. She has a PhD in media and communication and is a qualified librarian. Previous roles include Research Fellow at ADM+S\, Program Director at AIO\, Director of Australian Policy Online and Literature Program Manager at the Asialink Centre\, University of Melbourne.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/data-donation-and-the-aio-platform/
LOCATION:Michie Building (9) – The Writer’s Studio (612) Level 6\, UQ\, 9 Chancellors Place\, St Lucia\, QLD\, 4067\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,ECR Students,HDR Students,Public Event
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SUMMARY:Towards Digital Futures: Mapping the Digital Gap 2026 Outcomes Report Launch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html css=””]JTNDcCUyMHN0eWxlJTNEJTIyZm9udC1zaXplLWFkanVzdCUzQSUyMC40NSUyMiUzRUltYWdlJTIwZGVzY3JpcHRpb24lM0ElMjBDby1yZXNlYXJjaGVyJTIwTGVvbmllJTIwTGFtaUxhbWklMjBjb25kdWN0aW5nJTIwc3VydmV5JTIwd2l0aCUyMFNhbXVlbCUyMEdhbHdhJTIwaW4lMjBNYW5heWluZ2thciVDMyVBRHJyYSUyMCUyOE1hbmluZ3JpZGElMjklMkMlMjBOVCUzQyUyRnAlM0U=[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The ADM+S Centre and Telstra invite you to attend the online launch of the fourth Mapping the Digital Gap Outcomes Report” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1753848373553{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\nSince 2022\, the Mapping the Digital Gap research team has been engaged in place-based digital inclusion research in partnership with diverse remote First Nations communities and local organisations across Australia. \nDigital inclusion is critical for access to key services\, health\, education\, employment opportunities and informed decision-making\, as recognised by Closing the Gap Outcome 17. This research seeks to both measure and help address the digital gap where it is most acute. \nAfter 50 site visits over five years\, this project has deepened our understanding of communications and media use across remote Australia and the inequities in digital access\, affordability and skills. Targeted community reports provide back to communities all survey and interview data\, along with local digital inclusion plans\, to support community-led solutions. \nSince 2025\, the research team embarked on Phase 2 of the research\, visiting eight new communities and three exisiting sites. This has provided the opportunity to understand the geographic and contextual differences for these diverse sites as well as targeted infrastructure and strategies to address local context and needs. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”33813″ img_size=”large” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]About the report\nThis report compiles the 2025–2026 results from those Phase Two communities (plus three Phase 1 communities visited in 2025 and 2026)\, outlining community-specific results and variations in communications infrastructure and social\, cultural and geographic context. \nIt provides analysis on current and emerging challenges and demonstrates how collaborative partnerships with community leaders and service providers are driving practical digital inclusion initiatives. \nIt emphasises the importance of First Nations leadership and a community-led partnership approach with government and industry to build a digital future in remote Australia. \nAbout the event\nJoin our online event for an overview of the data\, context and key findings from the report\, discussion of the evolving digital inclusion challenges facing remote communities in 2026\, case studies of on-the-ground experiences of residents and service providers\, and an interactive Q&A session with leading industry and academic experts. \nRegistration is free and essential.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1701823210479{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2F2003044231216%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1758521725091{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PRESENTERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1758521725091{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”31508″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””] \n\nNaomi Moran\nFirst Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group and NSW Treaty Commissioner \nNaomi Moran is a proud Bundjalung and Dunghutti woman and one of three independent Commissioners leading the NSW Treaty Commission. Prior to her role as Commissioner\, she served as the CEO of the Koori Mail\, Australia’s only fully Aboriginal-owned and operated national newspaper\, and has led communities through major moments of community care and national significance. \nNaomi brings over 25 years of experience across Indigenous media\, governance\, and community development.  She is a member of the National NAIDOC Committee and the First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group\, and is widely respected for her leadership in cultural facilitation\, program design\, and systems change. \nA powerful advocate\, speaker and presenter\, Naomi is known for centering truth-telling\, cultural integrity\, and collective responsibility through deep listening with First Nations people and communities. \nLearn more \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”30995″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Professor Lyndon Ormond-Parker\nPrincipal Research Fellow\nFirst Nations lead\, Mapping the Digital Gap project\nRMIT University \nCo-Chair\nFirst Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group \nDr Lyndon Ormond-Parker was born in Darwin and is of Alyawarra descent from the Barkly tablelands region of the Northern Territory. He is a cultural heritage expert with significant experience in the fields of history of medical collections\, repatriation\, archives\, information technologies\, materials conservation\, heritage\, and policy. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”7712″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Lauren Ganley\nLead\, First Nations Strategy & Engagement\nTelstra \nLauren is the Head of Telstra’s First Nations Strategy & Engagement where she leads the strategy and ongoing governance of engagement with First Nations people and communities across Australia. Lauren’s work involves providing strategic advice\, leading programs and business activities to improve digital and social inclusion and advocating for better outcomes for First Nations people and communities. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”491″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Distinguished Professor Julian Thomas\nDirector\nADM+S Centre \nJulian is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Prior to the commencement of the ADM+S Centre\, he was Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research (2005-2016)\, and then Director of RMIT’s Social Change research platform. He has also led the team producing the Australian Digital Inclusion Index since 2015. His work ranges across the contemporary histories of new communications technologies\, digital inequality and inclusion\, and the internet and communication policy. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”13270″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Associate Professor Daniel Featherstone\nPrincipal Research Fellow\nRMIT University \n\n\nDaniel joined the ADM+S Centre in April 2021 to lead the ADM+S / Telstra Mapping the Digital Gap project as part of the ADII team. Since 2025\, he has also co-led the Measuring Digital Inclusion for First Nations Australians research. Daniel was previously General Manager of peak body First Nations Media Australia from 2012-19 and managed Ngaanyatjarra Media from 2001-2010\, supporting media and communications programs in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of WA. \n\n\nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″ disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”31501″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Diat Alferink\nCEO\, Torres Strait Islanders Media Association \nDiat Alferink is from the Kala Lagaw Ya Language group from the Western Torres Strait Islands. Diat has been Chief Executive Officer of the Torres Strait Islanders Media Association (TSIMA) for the last 9 years and Editor in Chief of the Torres News for the last three years. With over 30 years experience in Indigenous Arts practice and management\, Diat is a passionate advocate for development opportunities for First Nations arts\, culture and media in regional and remote communities. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″ disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”20073″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Dr Dot West OAM (Noongar)\nCo-Chair\nFirst Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group \nMs. Dorothy (Dot) West OAM is a Noongar woman from the south west of Western Australia\, with ancestral ties to the north and has been living and working in the Kimberley region since 1977. \nMs West is a director of Broome-based Goolarri Media Enterprises and its production arm\, Ramu Productions\, and is known for her writing on The Heights\, Little J & Big Cuz\, and The Circuit\, which she also co-produced. \nMs West is the inaugural chair of the First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group. Ms West has served on Screenwest’s Industry Advisory Group and WA’s Screen Industry Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Group\, as well as on the boards of SBS\, NITV\, Screenwest\, the Australian International Documentary Conference\, the National Indigenous Radio Service and as chair of First Nations Media Australia. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″ disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”30885″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Yasmin Johnson (Wulgurukaba\, Ngaro\, Gooreng Gooreng – QLD)\nResearch Support Officer\, RMIT University\nFounder / CEO\, Maburra Collective Inc. \nYasmin Johnson is a proud Wulgurukaba woman from Yunbenun (Magnetic Island) with ancestral and family ties to the Ngaro and Gooreng Gooreng peoples of the Whitsunday\, Gladstone\, and Bundaberg regions. With over 20 years of experience in the social services sector\, Yasmin is recognised for her leadership in domestic and family violence (DFV) reform\, Aboriginal-led healing programs\, and First Nations research. Her current involvement in the First Nations Digital Inclusion Projects reflects her ongoing commitment to embedding cultural approaches within policy\, data\, and governance reform. \nAs Founder and CEO of Maburra Collective Inc.\, Yasmin leads strategic policy\, program design\, and governance development across the justice\, DFV\, and family wellbeing sectors. Yasmin also currently contributes nationally as an Independent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Member of the Data Policy Partnership (Coalition of Peaks) and holds an editorial appointment with the Journal of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet. Yasmin was awarded the 2025 Boundless Indigenous Writers Mentorship through Writing NSW for her creative nonfiction manuscript exploring intergenerational storytelling and truth-telling. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″ disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”30778″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Sharon Barnes\nDirector in Public Affairs Indigenous Research Unit\nIpsos Social Research Institute \nSharon Barnes is the Director of the Ipsos Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Unit (ATSIRU) residing on Birpai country in NSW. With over 30 years of experience in research and community engagement\, Sharon is very experienced in conducting large research and evaluation projects with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples\, organisations\, and communities. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″ disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”30779″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Michael Barnes (Ngunnawal)\nAssociate Director in Public Affairs Indigenous Research Unit\nIpsos Social Research Institute \nMichael Barnes is a Ngunnawal man residing on Birpai country\, NSW. With extensive experience in both qualitative and quantitative research\, Michael specialises in engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through various methodologies\, including face-to-face interviews\, in-depth interviews\, and focus groups. His expertise extends to graphic design and producing accessible\, culturally appropriate research materials. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1758521725091{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”PARTNERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1758521725091{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner gap=”30″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”25069″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Telstra \nThis project received funding support from research partner Telstra[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/mtdg-2026-report-launch/
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SUMMARY:3rd Annual Digital Law Symposium
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Hosted by Sydney Law School and ADM+S\, this symposium seeks to host/generate a discussion about the future of digital regulation and governance\, and the use of technology in and related to the law within Australia and/or internationally.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Digital Law includes (but is not limited to) submissions addressing the following topics: \n\nDigital services regulation including online safety\, digital duty of care\, online platform regulation\, litigation for platform accountability\, mis/disinformation\nAI regulation and governance including AI standards\, data centre expectations\nRegulation of public or justice sector use ADM and/or AI\nPrivacy law\, data governance and the regulation of surveillance\nCopyright law in a digital and/or AI context\nOther areas of law applicable to digital services and AI: such as discrimination law\, labour law\, human rights\nMethodological papers on how to study any of the above\, directed at the challenges/opportunities of studying digital law.\n\nAustralian as well as comparative/international perspectives are welcome\, as is interdisciplinary work\, provided there’s a connection to law. \nHosted by Sydney Law School and ADM+S\, the symposium will host discussion on a wide array of topics about the future of digital regulation and governance\, and the use of technology in and related to the law within Australia and internationally. \nThis exciting program is currently being finalised and registration will open by the end of October. \nFor further information about the symposium\, please email law.adms@sydney.edu.au[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1787105658845{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0″][vc_custom_heading text=”Call for papers” font_container=”tag:div|font_size:22pt|text_align:left|color:%23FFFFFF” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”” el_class=”boldText”][vc_column_text css=””]The organisers are currently inviting paper\, mentoring\, and workshop submissions relating to digital law. \nPlease email submissions to law.adms@sydney.edu.au by 7 September 2026. All key dates and details for Call for Papers are below. \nTimeline \n\nAbstract submission deadline (papers\, mentoring\, and workshops): 7 September 2026\nNotification of acceptance: 30 September 2026\nPaper submission date for mentoring track: 2 November 2026\nFeedback on mentoring track papers by: 23 November 2026\nConference date: Monday 30 November 2026\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Paper submissions\nIf you would like to give a paper presentation at the symposium\, please submit:\na) A title and an abstract of approximately 300 words maximum\, and\nb) A short biography\, name\, affiliation and contact detail of author/authors (in case of more authors\, please indicate the name of the corresponding author). \nMentoring track for full paper submission\nThe organisers would like to offer the opportunity for full (draft) paper submissions that include review and feedback from a colleague on the organising committee prior to the conference. This option may be most relevant to\, but is not confined to\, ECRs. \nIf you wish to take advantage of this option\, you should: \n\nindicate your intention to submit a paper with your abstract submission\nif accepted: submit your paper for feedback must be submitted by 2 November.\nour goal is that feedback will be provided by no later than one week before the date of the Symposium\, so that the feedback can be used in finalising presentations for the\nconference.\n\nWould you like to organise a side workshop? Tuesday 1 December\nWe would like to offer the opportunity for participants to organise Symposium-adjacent roundtables or workshops for interactive discussion or an in depth investigation of a particular topic. Workshops would be held on Tuesday 1 December 2026 (the day after the Digital Law Symposium). Sydney Law School can offer venue support\, and the event can be publicised as part of the Symposium. Workshop organisers would be expected to set the scope and structure of any workshop\, as well as select participants if relevant. \nIf you are interested in organising a workshop on 1 December with venue and publicity support\, please email the organisers with: \n\nA title\na brief (up to 500 word) precis of the event you have in mind\, covering (a) topic\, (b) proposed structure/duration/number of likely participants\, including whether the proposed workshop would be closed\, or open to Symposium participants\, or open to a broader public\, (c) the identity of any already-identified participants\, and descriptions of who else would/might be involved.\n\nPlease email your submissions to law.adms@sydney.edu.au\nwith subject line: ‘Digital Law Symposium – [Abstract/Workshop] submission – [your name]’ \nFurther information\nFor further information about the conference\, please contact the organisers\, via email to Catherine Dornan\, ADM+S Sydney Node Administrator\, at catherine.dornan@sydney.edu.au.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”custom” custom_background=”#FFD600″ custom_text=”#000000″ css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Fcreativity-as-data-tickets-1991161485604%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Speaker” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”” el_class=”boldText”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1787105650762{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0″][vc_column_text css=””]Xiyin Tang is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Tang’s research focuses on the roles that technological evolution and new modes of dissemination play in the law of intellectual property. Her current research addresses how IP laws should respond to artificial intelligence and its effect on creative labor markets. Past writings have addressed the use of both public and private mechanisms—in the form of class action litigation and confidential contracts\, respectively—as responses to mass digitization and\, with it\, potentially\, mass infringement. Her publications have appeared in the Columbia Law Review\, Michigan Law Review\, NYU Law Review\, and Yale Law Journal\, among others. She is also a co-author of sections of the leading copyright law treatise Nimmer on Copyright. \nTang received her B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing summa cum laude from Columbia University. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School\, where she received the Neale M. Albert Prize for Best Paper on Art Law and twice received the Nathan Burkan Memorial Prize for Best Paper on Copyright Law. During law school\, Tang served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Image credit: Daniela Zampieri / Better images of AI[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1776305698312{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”974″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Daniel Angus\nProf. Daniel Angus is Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication\, and Director of QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre. Daniel’s research examines issues at the intersection of technology and society\, with a focus on artificial intelligence\, automation\, misinformation\, and new methods to study the digital society.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”11654″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Nic Carah\nProf Nic Carah is Director of the Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies in the Faculty of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences and Professor in the School of Communication and Arts. He is an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society\, and a Chief Investigator on ARC Discovery and Linkage projects. Nicholas’ research examines the algorithmic and participatory advertising model of digital media platforms\, with a sustained focus on digital alcohol marketing.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”7751″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Amanda Lawrence\nDr Amanda Lawrence is Engagement Lead at Australian Internet Observatory based at RMIT University. She has a PhD in media and communication and is a qualified librarian. Previous roles include Research Fellow at ADM+S\, Program Director at AIO\, Director of Australian Policy Online and Literature Program Manager at the Asialink Centre\, University of Melbourne.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/3rd-annual-digital-law-symposium/
LOCATION:The University of Sydney Law School\, Camperdown\, NSW\, 2006\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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