Photo credit: Kite, Napé okíčhiyuspa okáwiŋȟ wačhíuŋhíyayapi. (Holding hands we encircle each other in dance.) 2021. PS122 Gallery, New York, NY. Done in collaboration with the Vera List Center. Synthetic hair braid, three machine learning knots, projectors, dimensions variable. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.

LASER Talks in Montreal at Hexagram: AI and Communities of Practice

AI's emergent qualities in the communities of practice of research-creation, environmental data science, indigenous knowledge, and governance.

Co-chairs: Nina Czegledy and Gisèle Trudel

EVENT INFO

When: March 26, 2024 6-7:30 pm EDT (UTC -4) Find your timezone here

Where: Hybrid event
Location: Agora du Cœur des sciences de l’UQAM
175, Av. du Président-Kennedy, Situated behind the Président-Kennedy Pavilion
Metro Place-des-arts. Bus 55, 80, Universal access, Tiohtià:ke | Mooniyang | Montréal H2X 3P2

Online: Register via ZOOM

https://uqam.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoc-ugrT4qGtzOg29SELZv7R_R6h2akopM

Website: https://hexagram.ca/en/laser-14-lia-et-les-communautes-de-pratique/

AI operates in emergent ways across various fields of research and communities of practice, influencing and transforming approaches in ways that can be both promising and challenging. Processes and impacts are being studied, among others, in healthcare, finance and education. Each domain addresses the continuing implications about the potentials, possibilities, and actualizations along with AI. Yet how does AI operate in specific fields of research?

During LASER 14, panelists will discuss AI's emergent qualities in each of their own fields. They will discuss its role and how it provokes or induces changes in their practice of research-creation, environmental data science, indigenous knowledge, and governance. By sharing novel approaches, which includes the importance of addressing biases, ethics, societal and environmental impacts, the goal of this event is to navigate evolving concerns about AI.

With
- Blandine Courcot, physicist and environmental data scientist, Dot-Lab, TÉLUQ University
- Fenwick McKelvey, Associate Professor*, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University
- Sofian Audry, artist and professor*, School of media, UQAM, Hexagram Co-Director
- Suzanne Kite, Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, assistant professor of American and Indigenous studies Bard College, research associate Abundant Intelligences

Respondent and moderator: Ola Siebert, doctoral candidate*, Faculty of Communication, UQAM (*Hexagram member)

SPONSORS:

Hexagram gratefully acknowledges funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture.

Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks is a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of LASER is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities and 5 continents worldwide.

Hexagram is an interdisciplinary network in Montreal dedicated to research-creation addressing the relationships between arts, cultures and technologies. It comprises around forty co-researchers, forty collaborators, and a little over 200 students from various artistic disciplines related, in particular, to living arts, visual arts, design, and media arts, while also touching disciplines in the social sciences and humanities or natural sciences and engineering.