Logical Conclusions/ Automation Effects

Miscellania 2/401 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC

This experimental program will feature artists, musicians, writers and researchers thinking with and against the logic of digital automation, algorithmic culture, and AI in order to trouble and subvert systems that extract, aggregate, model, and predict.


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Automated Societies Panel Discussion

The Capitol 113 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC

Join us for a cocktail function followed by a panel discussion featuring internationally recognised experts and industry participants. The panel will discuss the opportunities of Automated Societies and explore the question: what do we need to know?


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Re-imagining Automated Care through Arts-based Methods Workshop

Green Brain, RMIT University Level 7, Building 16, 342 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC

Engage with hands-on arts-based methods to think through, problematise and contest imaginaries and practices of automated care as well as develop future-oriented ideas about possibilities for better automated care.


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How AI is changing medical practice

Sydney Law School Camperdown Campus, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW

Join Prof Kimberlee Weatherall, Prof Frank Pasquale and other experts as they unpack the challenges and advantages of AI and how it is changing medical practice.


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Placing Labour, Locating Contemporary Capitalisms Workshop

Western Sydney University, Parramatta Victoria Rd, Rydalmere, NSW

In this workshop we build on insights about the labour displacing effects of technologies of automation to ask about the new places in which labour emerges as we increasingly work in, with, and on automated assemblages.


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International Conference on Facial Recognition in the Modern State

Online

From border control to policing and welfare, governments are using automated facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect taxes, prevent crime, police cities, and control immigration. Building on cultural and legal differences and common trends, this conference will discuss possible future directions in regulating governments’ use of FRT at national, regional, and international levels.


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Life in the Age of Automation: Cultural and Creative Perspectives

ModWest Building, (11A, UQ) The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD

Automation is widely recognised as one of the most central and powerful organising systems of everyday life, yet key questions about its historical, cultural and epistemological specificity remain unanswered. The symposium brings together researchers and representatives from key centres and projects focused on the study of automation.


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Tech for Good: ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon

The Oxford Scholar 427 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC

The Dark Ads Hackathon will build capacity in the area of online advertising accountability by sharing tools and fostering a network of researchers working in this area.


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Dark Ads: Public Panel

Kaleide Theatre 360 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC

Join an evening of discussion on the issues raised by the use of targeted advertising online.


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