Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age

Registration

Welcome and Introduction

Satinder Gill (Music, AI&Society, Re-Network, University of Cambridge)

Keynote

Chair: Ghislaine Boddington (Body>Data>Space, Women Shift Digital, University of Greenwich, London)

Geoff Mulgan (CEO, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)

'How Can Collective Intelligence Orchestrate Tacit Knowledge of Different Kinds?'

Tea/Coffee Break

Roundtable
Social Media: From Embodied to Iterative Publics

Chair: Bill Thompson (BBC R&R)

Tony D Sampson (University of East London)

'The Subjectless Shared Experiences of Lookalike Audiences'

Simone Shu-Yeng Chung, Mary Ann Ng (National University of Singapore)

'Engagements Across a Multiplicity of Millennial Identities'

Francesco Garibaldo (Claudio Sabattini Foundation), Emilio Rebecchi (Bologna University)

'If I Cannot Move Heaven, I Will Raise Hell'

Jane Turner (Turning Worlds Dance Company, London)

'Phase Transitions: Self Organising Systems in Performative Dance'

Clare Foster (Founder, Re-Network, University of Cambridge)

'Behavioural Science on Digital Public Space'

Lunch Break

Roundtable
Self as Interaction  

Chair: Satinder Gill (Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge)

David Good (Psychology, University of Cambridge)

'The Life Between us: Variations in the Medium of Exchange and Their Impact on the Formation of Self'

Hatice Gunnes (Computer Science, University of Cambridge)

'Affect and Personality in Humans and Robots'

Ian Cross (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge)

'Music and the Human Communicative Toolkit'

Tea/Coffee Break

Roundtable
Self as Interaction in the Digital Age

Chair: Ian Cross (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge)

Kriszta Sajber (Philosophy, Misericordia University USA)

'The Expressivity of Virtual Selves'

Rebekah Wilson (Independent Researcher, Interactive Media Design, Amsterdam)

'Strengthening the Networked Music Performance Experience with Machine-Learning'

Walter Gulick (Philosophy, Montana State University, Billings, USA)

'Personal Meanings Versus Robotic Behaviours'

Jin Hyun Kim (Music, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)

'Our Self and World Enhanced by Music’s Mediating Relations'

Refresh break

Performance Talk/ Interactive Event

Ghislaine Boddington (Body>Data>Space, Women Shift Digital, University of Greenwich, London)

'Internet of Bodies: Exploring the Future Human and Collective Engagement Scenarios'

Reception (Sponsored by AI & Society Journal)

Roundtable   
Intelligences: Models

Chair: Victoria Vesna (Art|Sci UCLA, USA)

Dietrich Brandt (RWTH Aachen, Germany)

'Enlightenment: The Past, the Present, and Our Futures'

Kathleen Richardson (De Montford University, Leicester )

'Property Relations: From Companion Robots and AI to Sex Robots'

Stephen Cave (Centre for the Future of Intelligence/CFI, University of Cambridge)

'Intelligence as Ideology: Its History and Future'

Tea/Coffee Break

Roundtable   
Intelligences: Indivisibles

Chair: Carl Rasmussen (Engineering, Machine Learning, University of Cambridge)

Jan Soffner (Zeppelin Universität)

'The Premises of the Singularity Hypothesis'

Simon Taylor (University of New South Wales, Australia)

'Dementia as a Collective Informant'

Melvin Chen, Chew Lock Yue (Nanyan Technological University, Singapore)

'Intelligence and the Elements of Causal Reasoning'

Edward Burnell (MIT, USA)

'Hybrid Intelligence: Forming Boundary Objects Between Practitioners' Knowledges and the Mathematics of Computation'

Refresh break

Interactive Event/Workshop

Maida Withers (Concoran School of Art and Design, USA)

'Mindfluctuations'

Lunch Break

Roundtable  
The Performance of Algorithms

Chair: Louise Amoore (Ethics and Algorithms, Durham University)

Mihály Hèder (Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary)

'Towards the Epistemic Transparency of Algorithms'

Charles W Lowney (Hollins University, USA)

'How the Body Solves Problems: Martial Arts, Tacit Knowing and AI'

Vit Stritecky, Petr Spelda, Filip Vostal (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)

'Temporality and Machine Learning'

Sonia de Jager (Music&Society, Erasmus University, Netherlands)

'Building Boundless, Reasonable Machines'

Tea/Coffee Break

Keynotes       
Social Milieus

Chair: David Good (University of Cambridge)

Louise Amoore (Durham University)

'Algorithms and the Unattributable'

Caroline Nevejan (Amsterdam University)

'Urban Trust'                          

Refresh Break

Roundtable  
Social Milieus

Chair: David Smith (University of South Wales)

Andreas Schellewald (Edinburgh University)

'The Poetics of Platforms: On Audio-Visual and Algorithmic Containment'

Alessio Chierico (Kunstuniversitat Linz, Austria)

'The Vacuous Identity in the Digital Realm'

Marielle Pelissero (Performing Arts, Paris-Nanterre University, France)

'Digital Media, Social Networks, and LIve Performance. Aesthetic Sociality and/as New Art Practice'

Cat Watts (University of Cambridge)

'Griefers and Gatekeepers: Re-Evaluating Realtime Gaming in the 21st Century'

Conference Dinner (for Speakers )

Registraton
 

Keynotes
Art as Science

Chair: Marleen Wynants (Scruitiniser)

Victoria Vesna (Art|Sci UCLA, USA)

'We Are Alien Stardust, We Are Viral Genes: Macro Micro Interactions'

Vibeke Sorensen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

'Art, Technology, and the Internet of Living Things (IoLT)'

Tea/Coffee Break

Interactive Event(s)/Workshop(s)

Kwan Q Li (Oxford University)

'Weedlist'

Rachel Stroud and Margaret Faultlesss (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Music, Cambridge University)

'Performing the Orchestra'

Roundtable  
Tacit Engagement in Practice

Chair:  Caroline Nevejan (University of South Wales)

Tania Fraga (University of Brasilia, Brazil)

'Epicurus' Garden: Poetic and Aesthetic Considerations of an Installation and Performances with Brain-Computer Interface'

Jonathan Impett (Music, Orpheus Institute, Belgium)

'Music, Thought and Intuitive Technology'

Marleen Wynants (Scrutiniser)

'SWAMPLAB'

Marcelo Velasco et al. (Fundacion Arte + Ciencia, Chile)

'Machine Leaning and Social  Good – a Chilean Experience'

Pam Burnard, Pallawi Sinha et al. ( Education, University of Cambridge)

'Re(Con)Figuring Arts and Mathematics Using Diffraction as a New Materialist Methodology for Understanding Enactments of Interdisciplinarity'

Lunch, Poster Presentations, Installations

Parallel Workshop – Polanyi Society (Lecture Rm 1)

Keynote         
Harry Collins (Cardiff University, Wales)

'Intelligence Is Social. That's Why Deep Learning Is so Good, but It's Still Not There'

Chair: Richard Staley (History and Philosophy of Science, Unversity of Cambridge)

Tea break

Roundtable
Representing the Social

Chair: Clare Foster (Univeristy of Cambridge)

Veronique Chance (Fine Art and Print Making, Anglia Ruskin University)

'Record, Relay, Represent: Experiencing Running as Mediated Performance'

Massimo Negrotti (Sociology, Urbino, Italy)

'The Reality of the Artificial. From a Dream to a Paradox'

David Harris Smith (McMaster University, Canada)

'Cultural Robotics'

Bill Thompson (BBC R&D)

'Towards Online Engagement: Rethinking the Network to Support Human Connections'

Closing Panel Discussion and Q&A

Reception (Sponsored by AI & Society Journal)