And: extractivistlandscapes.com/2024/10/04/w...
On the 23 May 2024 we held our second Extractivist Landscapes workshop, again pairing an academic and artist to analyse the entangled relations between the extractivist processes of mining and how …
Here is a little bit more about some of the workshops Megan & I have been running as part of this project: extractivistlandscapes.com/2024/10/01/w...
We talk about 4 main ethical issues with AI: • environmental impacts (water, energy, noise and community impacts) • labor issues (much perceived automation is really outsourcing) • algorithmic bias (stereotypes, erasure, invention) • knowledge infrastructures (plagiarism, authenticity, reliability)
thanks so much :)
Ah that's a shame—hopefully you can join us in the Spring!
Thank you! It's called, 'Material Girls: Crafty Women across Literary History'. We're trying to have craft making sessions built into the module as a way of thinking through the critical & literary texts. It's new so we're still seeing it evolve, but it has been a joy so far!
Thank you! Please join us if you can!
In today’s seminar we had a lace-making demonstration & my co-coordinator, Kate Fama taught how to make Victorian paper purses & flexagons which the students used to think through hidden meanings and relations in texts. Different perspectives, repetitions, changing alliances etc. it was excellent!
In establishing this group, we aim to collaboratively & reflexively engage with foundational & emerging scholarship & artwork that responds to the (neo)colonial histories of extractivism, and to explore imagining and practicing ways of being and relating that subvert and resist extractivism.
which explores how artistic and creative practises can process and communicate ideas about relating and acting ‘otherwise’.