SciComm Studio 020: Art, Activism & AI

The rapid expansion and deployment of today’s technology often comes with unanticipated consequences. Yet, critical insights into tech are prevalent in new media art projects that push boundaries into possibilities, limits, and impacts of tech on a human, social level. Is it time for industry, policy, and research to pay attention to the digital vanguard? Can artists inspire the use of technology to elevate and illuminate crucial questions and critique new forms of power?

Hear from those working at the intersection of art, activism, AI and Decentralized Autonomous Networks as we explore what artists can reveal about new technologies, from their negative consequences to liberatory possibilities.