Since the late eighteenth century, the changing ‘machinery question’ has continued to spark deep social divisions and to stimulate new fields of imaginative thinking, creative speculation, and social and cultural enquiry (including political economy, cybernetics, STS, AI ethics, critical data studies, and digital ethnography).
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have generated new interests, methods, problems, and capabilities across an array of humanities and creative arts disciplines. These have complicated conventional narratives of technological transformation, enabling a deeper understanding of the possibilities and hazards of automation, and the complexities of human-machine relations.
Our 54th Annual Academy Symposium explored some of the most exciting work underway on these issues across the humanities with related institutions and industry fields, in Australia and elsewhere.
Topics included:
- Virtual autopsies and automated morgues,
- The automation of cultural production and cultural taste,
- Human accountability for the actions of machines,
- The ‘explanatory imperative’
- Questions of Indigenous data sovereignty
- Digital human rights.
Details
When
16 & 17 November 2023
Where
Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne
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Program
The program is available here.
Convenors
31 May 2023
Jean is Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) where she is the co-leader of the Data program, and convenor of the QUT node.
31 May 2023
Julian is Director of the ADM+S Centre and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
Program
Speakers
16 November 2023
Elizabeth in an Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland and the founder and convenor of the Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network.
16 November 2023
Melissa is an internationally recognised research pioneer with deep technical expertise in user experience, sustainability, silicon and platform architecture and workplace transformation.
16 November 2023
Join us at our Annual Academy Dinner to hear cultural anthropologist, technologist and futurist Genevieve Bell AO FAHA FTSE weave a tale of automation.
17 November 2023
Jake Goldenfein is a law and technology scholar at Melbourne Law School
17 November 2023
Jenny is the Director of the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Indigenous Research Data Commons at the ARDC.