February 2018
Convergence: The Future of the Internet
This month: activist, artist and author Astra Taylor will join technologist Greta Byrum, Co-Director of the Digital Equity Lab at The New School and Director of the Resilient Communities Program at The New America Foundation, plus host Meehan Crist to ask: How will the fight over net neutrality shape our digital future?
Find out more »Ways of Knowing Cities Conference
Technology increasingly mediates the way that knowledge, power, and culture interact to create and transform the cities we live in. Ways of Knowing Cities is a one-day conference which brings together leading scholars and practitioners from across multiple disciplines to consider the role that technologies have played in changing how urban spaces and social life are structured and understood – both historically and in the present moment.
Find out more »Presidential Scholars Research Symposium
Our 2016 Presidential Scholars will discuss their cross-disciplinary research and new findings on topics in Society and Neuroscience.
Find out more »Decision Trees and Branching Dendrites
Lawrence Weschler, writer; Carl Schoonover, Postdoctoral Fellow, Axel Lab, Columbia University; and Beth Campbell, artist, will ponder the way branching patterns keep appearing at different scales and in different guises, from the dendrites of Cajal’s neurons to the decision trees in Campbell’s work.
Find out more »Out in Tech New York: Extending Reality
Is technology pushing us towards a real-life Matrix? Augmented and virtual reality are changing the way we experience everything -- from mundane tasks to dangerous thrill-seeking. What are the business impacts? How will AR/VR change the way we think, live, and identify? Join Out in Tech for a stimulating panel sure to blur the confines of reality. There will be an opportunity to network with LGBTQ techies and allies.
Find out more »Three Point Stance: Embodying the Politics and Pleasures of Football and Basketball
Featuring NYU’s Noel Anderson, Clinical Assistant Professor of Art & Art Professions (Steinhardt); Pato Hebert, Associate Arts Professor, Art & Public Policy (TSOA); and Daniel P. Perl, Professor of Neuropathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, this conversation will examine the materiality and aesthetic forms of football and basketball to address the paradoxical mixture of elegance, ferocity, normative masculinity, highly ritualized style, racial identity, and trauma that characterize both games.
Find out more »Cajal’s Legacy: Memory, Mind, and Consciousness
Speakers Stephen Casper, Professor of History, Clarkson University, and Wendy Suzuki, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, NYU, will explore how changes to the brain can impact memory, mind, and consciousness, examining both Cajal’s groundbreaking contributions and the ethical and cultural implications of current work in the area.
Find out more »Gene Kogan – Machine Learning in the Composer’s Future Toolkit
In this talk, Kogan reviews the evolving application of machine learning to computational and new media art, with an emphasis on audio, demonstrating how new approaches to software can augment and counterpoint the normal compositional process.
Find out more »Jennifer Alexander – Technology, the Supernatural, and Social Gospel
How and why does the supernatural become productive, political, visible, and sensible – and how does it disappear? The organizers of the Lecture Series posed this question, and this talk addresses it in concrete, material terms, asking how debates about the supernatural origins of the universe appeared in post-war European debates about industry, industrial society, and human social needs.
Find out more »Cinnamon Bloss – Consumers, Citizens, and Crowds in the Age of Precision Medicine
This presentation will showcase a series of empirical studies that aim to both inform ethical questions raised by biomedical citizen science, as well as suggest areas for future research.
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