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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop with ARI — Grants and Fellowship Funding
DESCRIPTION:Arts Research Institute (ARI) workshop with Holly Unruh (ARI Executive Director) and Hannah Jasper (ARI Research Development Analyst) on finding funding to support your work\, and proposal writing 101. This workshop is geared toward graduate students and early career faculty\, and is appropriate for anyone wanting to hone their grant-seeking skills. \n**Please rsvp to Hannah (hannahjasper@ucsc.edu) for the zoom link. \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of the PhD+ Workshop Series. Learn more about the Arts Research Institute on the ARI website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-with-ari-grants-and-fellowship-funding/
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SUMMARY:Allen Riley - Critical Play with Large Language Models
DESCRIPTION:The idea of keeping the “human in the loop” is offered as a way to make AI “human-centered” and to safeguard against AI mischief\, but how does being in a loop with AI shape our communication with each other? Over the last 20 years\, Allen Riley created dozens of interactive artworks that explore mediated communication with youth and adults in venues including performance spaces\, museums\, festivals\, and schools. He discusses three recent projects that explore how large language models affect interpersonal communication. \nThe first project is an imaginative storytelling game called Popcorn Movie in which players are constantly interrupted by LLM summaries as they attempt to co-create a story together. Next\, he adapts the game into a satirical live performance titled Human Feedback in which an LLM facilitates a panel discussion among people who do not know what they are talking about. In a third iteration titled The Last Chat\, Riley reimagines the LLM as a social operating system. \nLanguage models are not grounded in the practical circumstances in which we use them. As a result\, they drift and hallucinate. When players hear an AI summary\, its semantic noise becomes part of their shared reality\, and the story spirals in on itself. Players navigate changing and often humorous conditions of coherence and confusion. He argues that this is an essential literacy for critical engagement with LLMs. Allen Riley proposes an alternative way of thinking and playing with AI as a feedback channel for socially interactive creative projects that critically play with AI. \nAllen Riley is an artist and curator who specializes in socially interactive media. He designs hands-on learning pedagogy at Beam Center and builds arcade games as a form of public art with Arcade Commons. Riley’s artwork has been presented at the Smithsonian American Art Museum\, Slamdance Film Festival\, and the Museum of the Moving Image. He received an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics and is a PhD candidate in Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. \n\nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute’s ± AI Initiative
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-play-with-large-language-models/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Gallant - Law For a More-Than-Human World
DESCRIPTION:Jackie Gallant will join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab to discuss her work with the More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program\, an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to the advancement of rights and well-being for humans\, nonhumans\, and the web of life that sustains us all. The Program has two primary goals. First\, using the tools of the law\, MOTH offers answers to key questions raised by a host of disciplines concerning human relationships—institutional\, political\, legal\, and cultural—with the natural world\, including in the context of pressing ecological challenges. These questions include: \nHow can the sciences—from mycology to botany and ecology to marine biology—be translated into and transform the law to better protect life on Earth? How can Indigenous and Western sciences join forces to create and transform legal protections for the more-than-human world? \nHow can we strengthen the implementation of the growing number of rights of nature rulings and laws to ensure they have material impact? \nHow do we give back to nature for its contributions to human activities and endeavors? \nHow can we bridge concern for humans and nonhumans as we ratchet up decisive actions to address the climate and biodiversity emergencies? How can a holistic approach to these and other ecological challenges contribute to reducing societal polarization as well as individual and species loneliness? \nHow can we best use technology – and guard against its excesses – to better understand and relate to nonhumans and nature more generally? \nThe answers—developed through MOTH actions—aim to protect the living world and its many beings while achieving more-than-human rights in practice. \nSecond\, MOTH nurtures and consolidates the field of practice and inquiry dedicated to more-than-human rights and related topics. In particular\, MOTH builds bridges between disciplines and nurtures intercultural and interdisciplinary collaboration and ideation. \nThe MOTH Program is an initiative of Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA)\, a program based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. \nJackie Gallant is a lawyer and the Director of Programs at the NYU MOTH Program. At MOTH\, she leads legal actions and programs which address major ecological challenges\, like climate change\, and pressing questions concerning legal\, political\, and cultural relationships with the more-than-human world. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/law-for-a-more-than-human-world-a-conversation-with-jacqueline-gallant/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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