The academic network Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft (KriKoWi) calls for a summer school at Paderborn University, 25 – 26 September 2020. Deadline for registering is 2 August 2020. Contact: Sebastian Sevignani, Interim Professor, Media Systems and Media Organisation, Institute of Media Studies,…
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Renate C.-Z.-Quehenberger created the video art work GAIA 5.0 – A holographic Image Ambience (the picture above shows the so-called hyper sphere of planet Earth) with Lydia Lunch (Sound & narration) in collaboration with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather…
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Shima Beigi, in charge of the Resilience for VUCA World 2020 Initiative at the Center Leo Apostel for Multidisciplinary Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, invites to an online round table on what societies ought to learn from the experience of the…
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The German Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) published number 1/2020 of their quarterly journal FIfF Kommunikation. The focus is on the yearly conference 2019 on Artificial Intelligence as Wonderland. See here. Videos of presentations and the…
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This is lifeWhat a fucked up thing we doWhat a nightmare come trueOr a playground if we chooseAnd I choose I Choose, The Offspring This is the motto of a dissertation thesis written by Evo Busseniers for the Doctor of…
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On 11 February 2020, the iASK (Institute for Advanced Studies Köszeg) Research Group Human 2.0 invited to its second workshop in Köszeg, Hungary. Guest and keynote speaker was Wolfgang Hofkirchner. He was invited to give a talk on the concept…
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On 13 December 2019, the Emergent Systems Group organised as Arbeitskreis of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (LS) – in co-operation with the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW – University of Applied Sciences) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für…
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More than 120 scholars, journalists, and activists participated in the third Annual Conference of the Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft (network for critical communication studies) from 21 to 22 November 2019 at the University of Leipzig, Germany. The network was founded among…
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From 22 to 24 November 2019, the German Forum of Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) held its annual conference at the University of Bremen. The overall theme was Künstliche Intelligenz als Wunderland. The conference offered 11 plenary…
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ARTificial 2019 in Linz at its Makerspace Grand Garage© aimed to bring together practitioners, researchers, and artists from different fields. About 60 participants joined the 3-day learning journey starting with interfacing digital production technologies and art, inspired by Johannes Braumann…
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