Past events
Visualising Gawari Mada with Mitchell Whitelaw
Workshop
Earlier this year participants were invited to observe, identify and record living things in the Holt Microforest using the citizen science platform iNaturalist. We’ve observed birds, plants, fungi, insects and more. In this workshop, we will investigate how we might represent and visualise this…
Art as Metadiscipline, presented by Prof Matthew Fuller
Seminar
The ANU Computational Culture Lab, School of Art & Design, invite you to join us for an Research School of Humanities & the Arts Distinguished Lecture, Art as Metadiscipline, presented by Prof Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths College. Supported by funding from the Research…
V. Chitra | Drawn into Life: Toxic and Tangled Intimacies along Mumbai’s Coastline
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online The polluted waters that surround the coastal city of Mumbai are frequently characterized as “dead zones,” devoid of marine life. Within urban plans, coastal wetlands are seen as empty repositories for the millions of tons of solid waste generated…
Plant dyeing workshop at Gawari Mada with Rebecca Mayo
Workshop
Please join Dr Rebecca Mayo on an extraordinary workshop to uncover the hidden colour palette of Gawari Mada (Holt Microforest). All ages and abilities welcome to join this participatory plant dyeing workshop and work together using a selection of plants growing on site…
Executing worlds: cultural formations of computing on the margins
Workshop
How can we re-configure the capacities and powers of the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) faced with the seeming capacity of computing, especially AI, to recode and rework conventional HASS objects of work such as images, sound, texts? How does the capacity to interpret and situate…
The Tables Have Turned: Desire, Power and Abstraction in the Subject in AI Society with Prof Olga Goriunova
Seminar
Presented by Prof Olga Goriunova, Royal Holloway, University of London. Supported by funding from the Research School of Humanities and the Arts Presented in-person and online via Zoom. This talk proposes the notion of the digital subject – the abstract, predicted subject made out of…
Beyond Speculation: Design in the Epoch of Unsettlement with Tony Fry
Seminar
A period of accelerating change has begun, which will further unsettle already unsettled populations, governments and pluri-futures. Viewing the world of design at a time of global epochal change there is speculation of how “things” will change. However, at the same time there are growing, …