Einladung zum Vortrag von/Invitation to the lecture by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Slimy Sentiment: Making things stick through surveillance and capture. https://www.akbild.ac.at/en/university/events/lectures_events/2024/wendy-hui... Datum: Tu 23.4.2024 Time: 18:30h Event Label: Talk Organisational Units: Academy Location Address (1): Schillerplatz 3 Location ZIP and/or City (1): 1010 Vienna Location Room (1): Anatomy Hall
Sentiment analysis entails the widespread surveillance of users posts and actions to determine how they feel.
This talk outlines the importance of early and mid-20th century studies of women workers and internees in U.S.
WWII internment camps to the rise of sentiment analysis. [lips with a kind of brown paste around] Liv Schulman, from Brown, Yellow, White and Dead, Miniseries. Video 4K. 2020. Courtesy of the artist Liv Schulman, from Brown, Yellow, White and Dead, Miniseries. Video 4K. 2020. Courtesy of the artist
Greetings: Rector Dr. Johan F. Hartle
Introduction and moderation: Prof. Dr. Joshua Simon Impulsprofessur at IKW 2023/24
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University's Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professor in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institutehttps://digitaldemocracies.org/. At the Institute, she leads the Mellon-funded Data Fluencies Project, which combines the interpretative traditions of the arts and humanities with critical work in the data sciences to express, imagine, and create innovative engagements with (and resistances to) our data-filled world.
She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her research on digital media. She has authored many books, including: Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011), Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT 2016), and Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition (2021, MIT Press). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she worked for almost two decades and is currently a Visiting Professor. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has also held fellowships from: the Guggenheim, ACLS, American Academy of Berlin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
The public talk is organized by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in collaboration with TU Wienhttps://www.tuwien.at/ and Secessionhttps://secession.at/, in conjunction with the hybrid exhibition Slime http://slime.secession.at curated by Joshua Simon.
For the hybrid exhibition Slime: slime.secession.athttp://slime.secession.at
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