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IVA2024 Keynote - Beverley HoodBots and beings: the arts as a critical strategy of re-imagining
University of Glasgow
Our encounters with the technological humanlike are exponentially growing and evolving, through designed experiences that assist, remind, inform, train, and seduce us, nudging and coercing our behaviours. There are also the more unintended, accidental, mutated lived experiences, that circumnavigate intended uses and find new ways to interact. The arts play a key role in showing, understanding, challenging, and re-imagining our relationship to technology, giving us new languages to tell stories about our lives; past, present, and future.
This talk will give an overview of my creative research practice, which has explored the impact of technology and science on the body, relationships, and human experience since the mid-90s. It will include digital media and performance works that critically examine how our social interactions have been cultivated and evolved over technologically mediated platforms, and re-materialised through humanlike, synthetic others. I will present my interdisciplinary, collaborative research approach, that embeds the arts as a crucial contributor to conversations about real-world challenges, anxieties, and potentials. Key to this approach are strategies that remind us that our relationships with technology are not purely technical concerns, but are, in fact, ripe with social, political, cultural, and moral questions about liveable near futures.
| Period | 18 Sept 2024 |
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| Held at | University of Glasgow |
| Degree of Recognition | International |