{"id":3643,"date":"2022-06-05T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2022-06-13T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T16:21:25","slug":"rai-conference-panel-anthropology-ai-and-the-future-of-human-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/rai-conference-panel-anthropology-ai-and-the-future-of-human-society\/","title":{"rendered":"RAI Conference Roundtable &#8211; Anthropology, AI, and the Future of Human Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"RAI 2022 - Critical Research Creation Engagements with Artificial Intelligence: New Works from MCL and cMAS\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/716959427?h=9856dbbf0c&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Making Culture Lab and CriticalMediartStudio (cMAS) was excited to present new work at the\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/therai.org.uk\/conferences\/anthropology-ai-and-the-future-of-human-society\">Royal Anthropological Institute Conference Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3652 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-13-at-9.19.26-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-13-at-9.19.26-AM.png 793w, https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-13-at-9.19.26-AM-260x300.png 260w, https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-13-at-9.19.26-AM-768x885.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our session \u201cCritical Research-Creation Engagements with Artificial Intelligence: New Works from the Making Culture Lab\u00a0and CriticalMediaArtStudio\u201d includes presentations by Dr. Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda, Dr. Kate Hennessy, Steve DiPaola, Trudi Lynn Smith, Tylar Campbell, Dr. Cecil Brown, Brett Gaylor, Freya Zinovieff and Dr. prOphecy Sun. We pre-recorded our individual presentations, embedded below. The full conference roundtable recording and discussion with Dr. Cecil Brown and Dr. Steve DiPaola is available only via the RAI Conference website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Critical Research-Creation Engagements with Artificial Intelligence: New Works from the Making Culture Lab (MCL) and CriticalMediaArtStudio (cMAS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cToward an anthropology of the multimodal, we present research-creation works engaging AI that represent, visualize, and interrogate expressions of gender, race, histories, relationalities, materiality, and cultural forms for exhibition and dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nJune 8, 6:30 am PST\/ 2:30 pm UK<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Full Abstract:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this roundtable, members of the Making Culture Lab and the CriticalMediaArtsStudio (cMAS) at Simon Fraser University, with collaborator and discussant Steve DiPaola, will present recent works engaging AI that represent, visualize, and critically interrogate expressions of gender, race, histories, relationalities, materiality, and cultural forms for exhibition and dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. As a method increasingly visible in anthropological work, research-creation brings together artistic and scholarly methodologies and legitimates hybrid outputs (Loveless 2015). It raises questions about the reshaping of artistic research into an academic discipline (Steryl 2010), and asks what is at stake in pedagogy, practice, and experimentation (Manning 2016).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Responding to the growing prominence of the multimodal in anthropology, we present research-creation artworks that act on calls for \u201can anthropology of the multimodal\u201d (Takaragawa et. al. 2018; Smith and Hennessy 2020) that engages the multimodal\u2019s position as an expression of technoscientific praxis and infrastructures, including artificial intelligence. This work shows how the multimodal, which is deeply intertwined with increasingly ubiquitous AI, is complicit in the reproduction of power hierarchies and forms of oppression but may also forge fugitive pathways to new ways of seeing and sensing. Works include engagements with oral history, race and fugitive spaces; machine vision and classification of the material; facial recognition and surveillance; AI-generated narrative, sonic decay, and poetry; and gendered bodies, kinship, and bacteria. The works point to possibilities for anthropology to critically engage with technoscience in critical practice and the place of research-creation as a method for an anthropology of the multimodal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 62.5% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"white clouds in blue sky - RAI 2022 Anthropology and AI - Hennessy, Smith, DiPaola\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/718417234?h=18d8ed1143&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 48.19% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"SonicEcologies of Body and Place - RAI 2022 Anthropology and AI - Zinovieff, Sun, Aceves Sepulveda, DiPaola\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/718415047?h=5e94b1f2be&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 57.14% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"RAI 2022 Anthropology and AI - Campbell, Brown, DiPaola\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/718411429?h=d3017aca72&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"Welcome to the Metaverse - RAI 2022, Anthropology and AI - B. Gaylor\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/718412502?h=b3bec6d407&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">References<\/span><br \/>\nLoveless, Natalie S. 2015. \u201cTowards a Manifesto on Research-Creation.\u201d RACAR: Revue d\u2019art canadienne \/ Canadian Art Review 40(1): 52\u201354.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manning, Erin. 2016. \u201cTen Propositions for Research-Creation.\u201d Collaboration in Performance Practice 19(2). Video, 25 min. Accessed May 23, 2020. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3998\/3336451.0019.206.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steryl, Hito. 2010. \u201cAesthetic of Resistance?\u201d Journal of Artistic Research. 8: 21\u201337<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mith, Trudi Lynn, and Hennessy, Kate. .2020. Anarchival Materiality in Film Archives: Toward an Anthropology of the Multimodal. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visual Anthropology Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 36(1):113-136.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takaragawa, Stephanie, Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Jenny Chio, Coleman Nye, and Shalini Shankar. 2019. \u201cBad Habitus: Anthropology in the Age of the Multimodal.\u201d American Anthropologist 121(2): 517\u201324.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Making Culture Lab and CriticalMediartStudio (cMAS) was excited to present new work at the\u00a0 Royal Anthropological Institute Conference Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. 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