Algorithmic Sound 7: Levy Lorenzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIYqXVmyjzw Electronic Instrument Builder and Performer – Levy Lorenzo – will host an event to showcase some new instruments with a deep dive into his musical and engineering design process. There will be direct connections drawn between coding, circuit design, performance practice, and instrument identity. Dr. Lorenzo will also announce upcoming hardware and software [...]

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Unnamed Sensibilities: the Experimental Sound and Media Art of Maryanne Amacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZDj78i8UpY The Graduate Center's Art Science Connect is delighted to host Amy Cimini, Bill Dietz, and David Grubbs as they delve into the legacy of Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009), a legendary figure in electronic music, sound installation, telematic performance, and media art whose archive was recently acquired by the New York Library for the Performing [...]

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AI & Affect

https://youtu.be/RJGut1NgaDU The increasingly prevalent use of AI technology has shifted the cultural politics of emotion. On the one hand, AI has instigated new models of collective belonging and radical joy for traditionally marginalized subjects. On the other, the use of AI to surveil, map, and commodify an entire panoply of physiological markers and body [...]

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Data & Democracy: Francesca Bria and Hito Steyerl

The Skylight room (9100), The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

https://youtu.be/DgvgApctJKE Imagine a “data commons” where accumulated personal statistics are structured from the bottom-up, as opposed to state and corporate top-down jurisdiction. A commons in which individual citizens determine their habits, and understand the sharing of biometric information as a personal and free act of volition. Imagine, and see: there is no digital revolution [...]

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Biohacking: A Conversation Between Artists and Scientists

https://youtu.be/bdC4HmWnsLw Who owns your DNA? The answer to this is not nearly as self-evident as one might expect. As corporations collect and commercialize genomic data, artists and activists have turned to biohacking to assert their own autonomy at the molecular level. Biohacking: A Conversation Between Artists and Scientists brings together Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Sophie [...]

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