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SUMMARY:Salon Talk: "Talking Trash" with Lai-Tze Fan and Sabine Weber
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URL:https://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/crimelab/event/salon-talk-talking-trash-with-lai-tze-fan-and-sabine-weber/
LOCATION:Critical Media Lab\, ECH 1205\, University of Waterloo
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SUMMARY:Infrastructure at Play - Winter 2019 Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Infrastructure at Play\, the annual Critical Media Lab exhibition featuring projects developed independently and in classes. \nFeatured in the show are Fine Arts students taught by Dr. Jessica Thompson (Fine Arts)\, Dr. Dan Vogel (Computer Science)\, Dr. Lois Andison (Fine Arts)\, Dr. Rob Gorbet (Knowledge Integration)\, as well as English students taught by Dr. Lai-Tze Fan. \nAlso\, a live performance led by Matthew Borland of the University of Waterloo Tape Music Club will be held at 6PM! \n\nThis event is catered and licensed.
URL:https://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/crimelab/event/infrastructure-at-play-winter-2019-exhibition/
LOCATION:Critical Media Lab\, ECH 1205\, University of Waterloo
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SUMMARY:The Nature of Experiment
DESCRIPTION:THE NATURE OF EXPERIMENT: INTELLIGENCE\, LIFE\, AND THE HUMAN \nMary Shelley’s famous invocation of human experimentation gone wrong is 200 years old\, but remains as vibrant an analysis of the human implication of scientific insight as it did when it was first published; perhaps more so in an age on the verge of breakthroughs in both AI and bioengineering.  This conference will approach the intersections of intelligence\, life\, and the human from a unique perspective\, through the concept and practice of the “experiment\,” both today and in the past. \n \nSince the incorporation of the Royal Society in the 1660s\, the experiment has been a central locus of both knowledge creation and design in our cultures and societies.  Poets\, engineers\, scholars\, entrepreneurs\, and scientists all conduct experiments\, and have done so for centuries.  Today\, experiment embraces information and data in new ways to create a host of new devices and vehicles.  In this era of emerging AI\, it is timely to ask practitioners in all these fields to reflect on what it means to “experiment.” \nSponsored by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies\, Faculty of Arts\, Department of Philosophy\, and Department of English Language and Literature. \nFor more information please visit our website.
URL:https://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/crimelab/event/the-nature-of-experiment/
LOCATION:Hagey Hall\, 200 University Avenue\, Waterloo\, N2L 3G1\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Posters for Student Activism - a Visual/Sonic Online Workshop Event
DESCRIPTION:Feed your creative being while connecting to the themes of UWaterloo’s Critical Tech Talk Series discussing the ethics of Technology.
URL:https://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/crimelab/event/posters-for-student-activism-a-visual-sonic-online-workshop-event/
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SUMMARY:Critical Tech Talk 2: Wendy Chun
DESCRIPTION:The SECOND event in this series of honest talks about innovation features Wendy Chun\, Director of the Digital Democracies Institute.
URL:https://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/crimelab/event/critical-tech-talk-2-wendy-chun/
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SUMMARY:Critical Tech Talk 3: AI Five Ways
DESCRIPTION:As artificial intelligence grows more prevalent every day\, even to the point of making life-and-death decisions for humans\, principles of Responsible AI must be implemented to ensure safety\, dignity\, privacy\, and autonomy for all. In this roundtable discussion\, hear from five experts across different professional and disciplinary backgrounds on their approaches to the field and perspectives on the future of responsible AI.
URL:https://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/crimelab/event/critical-tech-talk-3-ai-five-ways/
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SUMMARY:Critical Media Lab Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The Critical Media Lab is thrilled to invite our colleagues and friends to our project showcase. Student work from ENGL 494\, CS 889\, and the XDM master’s program will be on display. Please join us to celebrate the creative and critical works of our fantastic students!\nThis event will be held in Area 151 at the Communitech Hub (151 Charles St. W\, Kitchener\, Ontario) on Wednesday August 2\, 2023.\nPlease contact engl-cml@uwaterloo.ca for more information.\nPoster Design by Bella Goudie
URL:https://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/crimelab/event/critical-media-lab-showcase/
LOCATION:Critical Media Lab\, ECH 1205\, University of Waterloo
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SUMMARY:Getting started with micro:bit workshop
DESCRIPTION:In-person workshop at the Critical Media Lab (151 Charles St W\, Kitchener) \nFriday\, March 8 at 1:30 PM \nThis workshop is designed for anyone who is interested in getting started with microcomputers but doesn’t know where to begin. For better or worse\, microcomputers like the RaspberryPI and Arduino have become synonymous with maker culture and DYI projects\, offering modestly powerful computing in a pocket-sized package. As more rhetorical work embraces field work\, on the surface these relatively inexpensive tools seem to offer nearly unlimited potential for extendibility\, but the barriers to entry are often steeper than imagined\, with coding\, finding support\, and troubleshooting hardware faults all potential pitfalls. Using the BBC micro:bit as a platform\, this workshop will guide attendees in the basics of its onboard sensors including sound\, light\, and temperature\, to create an environmental logger. As attendees build a device that interacts with their surroundings they’ll be encouraged to think through how things and humans “co-shape each other” (Wakkary). No previous experience with microcomputers or coding is required. \nThe workshop will be facilitated by PhD candidate in the Department of English\, Chris Rogers. \nPlease RSVP using the QR code on the poster. Contact medialab@uwaterloo.ca with any additional questions.
URL:https://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/crimelab/event/getting-started-with-microbit-workshop/
LOCATION:Critical Media Lab\, ECH 1205\, University of Waterloo
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SUMMARY:CML '26 Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Join the Critical Media Lab for the 2026 showcase featuring interactive\, geo-electro-sensor projects by students enrolled in ENGL 799: Media Geologies. The event will open with a guest talk by Guelph-based media and surveillance scholar\, Stephen J. Neville on copper cultures. No registration necessary\, families and friends welcome\, refreshments will be served. \nAugust 12 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM | ECH1205 \nAbout the course: ENGL 799 (Media Geologies\, Dr. Marcel O’Gorman) acknowledges the deep geological histories and futures of media technologies\, building new ways of understanding human co-evolution with more-than-human agents. The topic will be informed by media theory\, philosophy\, speculative fiction\, sculpture\, installation\, and media art. \nProjects by: Sophia Heidebrecht\, Robert MacIsaac\, Juliana Stacey\, Kc Dickson\, Mélika Hashemi. \nGuest talk: Stephen J. Neville: On the conductivity of technical survivance: An introductory dialogue between old copper cultures\n\nAbout the talk: Copper landlines are having a comeback! While this might be hastily written off as media nostalgia\, discourse around landline telephones includes nodes of survivalism and intentional rejection of digital culture. In this presentation\, I interpret landline discourse in terms of technical survivance to better understand the political and cultural motivations that underlie people’s efforts to return to outdated circuits. This framing updates Leroi-Gourhan’s concept of technical survivals in conversation with Vizenor’s survivance\, which describes Indigenous people’s active and creative resistance against oppression. From this\, I suggest that the reassertion of older tools despite the availability of ‘high-tech’ alternatives be interpreted as a form of resistance to dominant technocultural power. In challenge to a narrative of technological devolution\, technical survivance is positioned as the basis for dialogue across Indigenous and Western histories\, environments\, and worldviews. Towards that end\, technical survivance is used to reframe the contemporary renaissance of copper landlines while relaying with the much older Indigenous copper culture of North America’s Archaic Period that ended with the return of stone tools. Rather than interpreting the decline of Indigenous copper culture as an archaeological conundrum\, I aim to repatch it as a conductive connection for technological inquiry and intercultural exchange. \nSpeaker bio: Stephen J. Neville is a media and surveillance scholar based in Guelph. He is currently a Fellow at the Infoscape Research Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and an affiliate researcher at the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies at York University. Supported by a SSHRC doctoral award and a Data Fluencies grant from the Social Science Research Council\, Neville received his PhD in 2026 from the joint-program of Communication & Culture at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University. Neville is also a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario. His research into Indigenous sound archives and land-based research creation was awarded the 2025 Mahmoud Eid prize for research into media and diversity by the Canadian Communication Association. With Greg Elmer\, he is the coauthor of The Politics of Media Scarcity (Routledge 2024) which foregrounds marginalized histories and storytelling as a challenge to dominant narratives of abundance and digital divides in media studies.
URL:https://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/crimelab/event/cml-26-showcase/
LOCATION:Critical Media Lab\, ECH 1205\, University of Waterloo
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