CLICK HERE to RSVP It is commonly held that recent advances in “artificial intelligence” have largely been possible due to recent increases in computing power. Moreover, it has long been an engineering assumption, emblematized by Gordon E. Moore's “law,” that this power will continue to improve over time. This talk interrogates the first assumption by […]
We are excited to announce the first speaker for the Technoculture Research Workshop this year: Shintaro Miyazaki! He will be giving a Zoom talk for us on Friday, March 18 at 10am Buffalo time! Shintaro Miyazaki is a media scholar and, since October 2020, a (junior)-professor in Digital Media and Computation (tenure-track) at the Faculty […]
A talk about the book and its polyauthored process. A rollicking romp of signaling without signification, hueing and crying across Civil War dirigibles, deathbed toe tags, and bobby call-boxes, from the Circus Maximus to the highway, all of it ending in an invisible prison of our own design. This polyauthored book will ask you for […]
The Technoculture Research Workshop welcomes M. Beatrice Fazi from the University of Sussex. In this talk, M. Beatrice Fazi will advance two parallel propositions that aim to define what digital theory is. First, she will argue that digital theory is a theory that investigates the digital as such and, second, that it is a theory […]
The Technoculture Research Workshop welcomes Alexander R. Galloway. What are the machines that determine thinking? We may approach the question in a number of ways. The typical approach is to consider (or perhaps even craft) a philosophy of media. This comes under the name of media studies or media theory, where media artifacts are taken […]
This 2-day, hands-on workshop led by international artist Marta de Menezes (Portugal) and interdisciplinary artist and educator Amy Pilling (US) will provide an overview of the most talked about biotechnology in the world today — CRISPR. What exactly is CRISPR, how does it work and what is its impact on the future? CRISPR is a revolutionary […]
This 2-day, hands-on workshop led by international artist Marta de Menezes (Portugal) and interdisciplinary artist and educator Amy Pilling (US) will provide an overview of the most talked about biotechnology in the world today — CRISPR. What exactly is CRISPR, how does it work and what is its impact on the future? CRISPR is a revolutionary […]
Latvian media artists Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, founders of the historic RIXC media center in Riga, will be screening and discussing their environmental sensing multimedia VR project, "Atmospheric Forest" as well as other works on Friday, November 17th, 2023 from 12:00-2:00pm in the CFA 278 Production Studio (located in the Department of Media Study). In […]
Please join the UB Department of Art, Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts and the Humanities Institute Technoculture Research Workshop for a special convening in Buffalo of FEMeeting Sister Labs: Women in Art, Science and Technology. This 3-day event of local and international artists, scholars, students and community members features a day-long symposium, exhibition, BioArt workshop and performance at […]
