Algorithmic Reveries: Artificial Intelligence and the Creative Process
SCA Re-Orientation Day
With Keynote Speaker Svitlana Matviyenko
Thursday, September 5, 2024 | 10:00 – 5:30 PM (Lunch included!)
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, 3rd Floor (GCA)
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
All SCA students are invited to join us for an inspiring day-long re-orientation event at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts. This year's theme, "Algorithmic Reveries," explores the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the creative process and its broader implications for society.
Schedule
- 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Coffee on the patio
- 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Land Acknowledgement
- 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM: Introduction to current state of AI
- 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM: Pechakucha presentations
- 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Pizza Lunch on the patio
- 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Keynote Speaker: Svitlana Matviyenko (45 minutes + QA)
- 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM: Break
- 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM: Panel Discussion led by Am Johal
- 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM: Music and unstructured discussion on the patio
Biographies
Svitlana Matviyenko
Svitlana Matviyenko is an Associate Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication and Associate Director of the Digital Democracies Institute. Her research and teaching, informed by science & technology studies and history of science, are focused on information and cyberwar, media and environment, critical infrastructure studies and postcolonial theory. Matviyenko’s current work on nuclear cultures & heritage investigates the practices of nuclear terror, weaponization of pollution and technogenic catastrophes during the Russian war in Ukraine.
Matviyenko is a co-editor of two collections, The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014) and Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She is a co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota UP, 2019), a winner of the 2019 book award of the Science Technology and Art in International Relations (STAIR) section of the International Studies Association and of the Canadian Communication Association 2020 Gertrude J. Robinson book prize.
Am Johal
Am Johal is Director of SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and Co-director of SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative. He is the author of Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene (Atropos Press, 2015) and is co-author with Matt Hern (with contributions from Joe Sacco), of Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale (MIT, 2018).
He is the co-founder of UBC's Humanities 101 program and has been a Visiting Professor with SFU's Centre for Dialogue and an associate with SFU's Institute for the Humanities. He previously served as chair of the Impact on Communities Coalition, as a board member with the Vancity Community Foundation, the Or Gallery, 221A Gallery, the Vancouver City Planning Commission, the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House and many other organizations. He has graduate degrees in international economic relations and media philosophy.
Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez
Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez is a designer and technologist passionate about live performance. Originally from Bogota, Colombia, he holds a M.F.A. in Design from Yale School of Drama and a B.F.A. in Theatre Design and production from The University of British Columbia. A devoted collaborator with the creative teams of several companies, he is often prototyping tools, processes, images, and environments that engage the sensory imagination. With a technical background in lighting, video, and staging, his work explores the adaptation of new technologies into the theatrical tradition. He is Interested in the development of rapid prototyping tools, scenography, theatrical spaces, media servers, documentation systems, and show control systems. He is an avid learner, constantly creating, inventing, and exploring.
His credits include: Since I Can Remember (The Wooster Group, USA); Kiss (Yale Repertory Theatre, USA); Parade (Nederlands Dans Theater, Netherlands); The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Ghost River Theatre, Canada); This American Wife (Next Door @ NYTW, USA); Salome (M3 Productions, USA); If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka, Bulgaria! Revolt!, The Merchant of Venice (Yale School of Drama, USA); RE:UNION (Yale Cabaret, USA); Gallery+Lumia (Yale Art Gallery, USA); Ziriguidum (Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, Canada); and Sometime Between Now and When the Sun Goes Supernova (Theatre Junction, Canada).