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Month: February 2025

  • Call: Interdisciplinary Conference on Creating Spaces for Digital Futures

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    Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Conference on Creating Spaces for Digital FuturesCenter for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)October 9-10, 2025Bochum, Germanyhttps://www.cais-research.de/creating-spaces-for-digital-futures Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2025 In an era where digital transformation is reshaping every facet of our lives, the concept of digital spaces opens new frontiers for research. While spaces are understood differently across various disciplines and encompass both material and abstract dimensions, the term is commonly used to describe the interdependencies between individual practices and environments. Thus, individuals are shaped by economic, legal, social, cultural and spatial structures that simultaneously emerge from action (Lefebvre 1991; Löw 2001).…

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  • Syracuse Professor Jaime Banks on the rise of AI companionship

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    [Our colleague and friend Professor Jaime Banks, and her research on social perceptions of and responses to disembodied and embodied AI, is profiled in this story from Syracuse University; see the original version of the story for four more (large, vivid) images. –Matthew] The Rise of AI Companionship Exploring love, loss and ethics in the age of artificial intelligence. By Jay CoxJanuary 28, 2025 When Jaime Banks met Valkyrie, NASA’s humanoid robot, at a robotics conference in 2017, its creators were demonstrating the robot’s capabilities. As they showed how Valkyrie uses sensors to navigate its environment, Banks saw her face…

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  • Call: “Photographic Portrait: Convergences, Divergences, Reflections and Thoughts” issue of Vista

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    Call for Papers: Photographic Portrait: Convergences, Divergences, Reflections and Thoughts (No. 16)For the journal Vistahttps://revistavista.pt/index.php/vista/announcement/view/89 Thematic Editors: Helena Pires (University of Minho, Portugal), Eduardo Camilo (University of Beira Interior, Portugal) and Florin Grigoraş (National University of Art „George Enescu”, Romania) Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 The call for papers “Photographic Portrait: Convergences, Divergences, Reflections and Thoughts” aims to bring together works that explore the multifaceted theme of photographic portraiture. We invite proposals from a wide range of domains, including, but not limited to, history of photography, philosophy of art and photography, visual culture and photographic studies, analysis of visual…

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  • Meet Frederick Douglass, the hologram, at this Boston museum

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    [An AI-based interactive hologram of abolitionist Frederick Douglass has debuted at the Museum of African American History in Boston, as reported in these stories from Axios and MassNonprofit News. The Axios story notes that the hologram is part of a larger trend in which museums are using AI holograms to draw and engage visitors. The MassNonprofit News story provides this description of the experience: “By asking questions through voice activation or a computer keyboard, visitors are placed at the heart of the experience, engaging directly with the legacy of Frederick Douglass. This interactive exhibit creates a dynamic and personal dialogue,…

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