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SUMMARY:Kate Crawford in conversation with Trevor Paglen
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of Kate Crawford’s new book \nATLAS of AI:Power\, Politics\, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence \npublished by Yale University Press \nThe Atlas of AI explores the hidden costs of artificial intelligence\, from natural resources and labor to privacy\, equality\, and freedom. \n————- \nThis is a virtual event hosted by Gray Area/San Francisco in conjunction with City Lights and Yale University Press. The event is free\, but registration is required. Will will be posting a link to a registration portal shortly. Keep your eyes on this spot for the link. \n————- \nHow is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased racial\, gender\, and economic inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research\, award-winning science\, and technology\, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure\, to the exploited workers behind “automated” services\, to the data AI collects from us. \nRather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms\, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity\, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world. \nKate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is a research professor at USC Annenberg\, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research\, and the inaugural chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. \nTrevor Paglen is an artist and geographer who explores and documents invisible infrastructures\, ranging from secret corporate and government sites to networks known through technologies of non-human\, machine vision. Paglen’s work spans through image-making\, sculpture\, investigative journalism\, writing\, engineering and numerous other disciplines. Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at Vienna Secession\, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum\, Van Abbe Museum\, Frankfurter Kunstverein\, and Protocinema Istanbul\, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the Tate Modern and numerous other venues.\n  \nAdvance praise for Atlas of AI \n“Eloquent\, clear and profound—this volume is a classic for our times. It draws our attention away from the bright shiny objects of the new colonialism through elucidating the social\, material and political dimensions of Artificial Intelligence.”—Geoffrey C. Bowker\, University of California\, Irvine \n\n“An insightful excursion into the processes\, implications and ethics of data creation and manipulation in the 21st century. Ranging across terrains as diverse as mineral mines\, server farms\, distribution warehouses\, and AI startups\, Crawford shows vividly how our systems have grown to be ‘dangerous when they fail and harmful when they work.’”—Joseph Turow\, author of The Voice Catchers\n\n\n“A must read. Moving from lithium mines to data extraction\, from labor exploitation to government surveillance\, Atlas of AI eloquently reveals how intelligence is ‘made.’ It displaces anemic calls for ‘ethics’ with probing investigations into the environmental degradation\, capital accumulation\, and labor conditions that AI makes possible.”—Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, SFU’s Canada 150 Chair in New Media \n  \n\n\n“Showing Artificial Intelligence as a technological achievement and cultural promise that spans politics\, labor\, land\, and data\, Crawford draws a unique and actionable map for seeing and challenging AI’s power.”—Mike Ananny\, University of Southern California \n  \n\n\n“Kate Crawford looks at Artificial Intelligence with a humanist’s eye and an artist’s sense of what really matters. If you think AI is all about big data and machine learning\, this marvelous book will remind you: it’s about the natural world\, and politics\, and history\, and sometimes\, even beauty too.”—Fred Turner\, author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties\n\n\n“In this eloquent and revelatory survey\, Crawford limns the dire stakes of unbridled technological expansion. Methodologically original and keenly intelligent Atlas of AI is an indispensable map of the present that boldly calls readers to chart a more just and sustainable future.”—Alondra Nelson\, President of the Social Science Research Council \n\n\n“From the extraction of labor\, latex\, and lithium to the politics of proxies and Palantir\, Atlas of AI is a rigorous interrogation of the power relations that reproduce AI\, and a necessary mapping of its very limits. This is an essential book.”—Simone Browne\, author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness \n  \n\n\n“By brilliantly tracing the history\, mythology\, ethics and politics of artificial intelligence\, Atlas of AI reminds us that the stories we tell about AI are just as vital as the mathematical models that comprise these systems.”—Ruha Benjamin\,\nauthor of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code\n\n\n“Whether you’re a devoted researcher\, an AI practitioner\, or a general reader concerned about the growing power of data\, this is an eye-opening tour of the planetary resources\, laboring bodies\, and relations of power that travel under the sign of AI\, lending the empire of data its unsustainable life.”—Lucy Suchman\, author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations \n\n\n“Artificial Intelligence seems to haunt the world like a ghost in our machines. But as Kate Crawford shows in her vivid\, unnerving book\, this amalgam of algorithms\, data\, hardware is anything but immaterial. Atlas of AI is an outstanding contribution: the ghost of AI made visible.”—Peter Galison\, author of Einstein’s Clocks \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-crawford-in-conversation-with-trevor-paglen/
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the release of Dani Gabriel’s full-length collection of poetry\, Low Rent Prophet.\nReadings by Josiah Luis Alderete\, James Tracy\, and of course\, Dani Gabriel. Emcee and musician to be announced soon!\nPreorder your copy here: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/lowrentprophet\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel\nTime: Apr 30\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81683548873…\nMeeting ID: 816 8354 8873\nPasscode: 201235\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,81683548873#\,\,\,\,*201235# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,81683548873#\,\,\,\,*201235# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 816 8354 8873\nPasscode: 201235\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc06ffs49o
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Wall + Response: Celeste Chan\, MK Chavez\, Paul Corman-Roberts & Tim Xonnelly
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are proud to host a four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response\, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to the social/ political/ racial/ justice narratives of four murals on Clarion Alley. \nCurated by CAMP artist and organizer Megan Wilson (wall) and poet Maw Shein Win (response)\, the third event in the series features Celeste Chan\, MK Chavez\, Paul Corman-Roberts and Tim Xonnelly responding to the mural Affordable Housing/Vivienda Asequible by Art Hazelwood/SF Print Collective working with the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP). \n\n\nAffordable Housing/Vivienda Asequible (2016) by the SF Print Collective working with the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) represents people working together against the structures of oppression to become a powerful force of nurturance\, peace\, and justice. The mural speaks to WRAP’s critical work to expose and eliminate the root causes of homelessness and poverty\, empower communities to demand protection of civil and human rights\, and advocate for restoring federal funding for affordable housing. The mural will travel to Los Angeles’ Skid Row later in 2021. \n\n\nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n– ABOUT THE PROJECT – \nWall + Response was originally conceived to culminate in four quarterly public events to be presented on Clarion Alley. However\, due to the pandemic the poets will instead be filmed by videographer Mahima Kotian reading their work in front of the murals on Clarion Alley. Kotian will be creating videos for each series that will be presented as part of live online events (of which this is the first). All the events are free and open to the public. \nThe poets are creating new poems in response to the murals\, and will be reading those and other selected works at the events. The specific dates for each event will be announced in the month prior to the event. \nWall + Response is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Art Commission and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. \n– ABOUT THE AUTHORS – \nCeleste Chan is a writer and filmmaker\, schooled by Do-It-Yourself culture and immigrant parents from Malaysia and the Bronx. She launched her creative work in San Francisco in 2004. She founded and directed Queer Rebels (a queer and trans people of color arts project)\, created and curated experimental films\, joined Foglifter Literary Journal as an editor and board member\, and toured with legendary feminist road show\, Sister Spit. Her writing can be found in Ada\, AWAY\, Citron Review\, cream city review’s genrequeer folio\, Feminist Wire\, Gertrude\, Hyphen blog\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. \nMK Chavez is the award-winning author of Mothermorphosis and Dear Animal\,. Chavez is co-curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and poetry editor at Rivet Literary Journal. She is the recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award of an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. Her most recent publications can be found in bags of coffee from Nomadic Coffee and on the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series. \nPaul Corman-Roberts‘ 2nd full length collection of Bone Moon Palace will be released by Nomadic Press in the Fall of 2020. Previous collections include his full length debut The Abomunauts Are Coming To Piss On Your Lawn (Howling Dog Press\, 2006) and the chapbook collections NeoCom(muter) (Tainted Coffee Press\, 2009) 19th Street Station (Full of Crow Chap Series\, 2011)\, Notes From An Orgy (Paper Press\, 2014) and We Shoot Typewriters (Nomadic Press\, 2015.) His poem “Sausalito” won the Out of Our Magazine poetry contest in 2010 and his short story “The Deathbed Confession of Christopher Walken” placed 2nd in subTerrain Magazine’s national fiction contest in Canada. A three-time Pushcart and Best of Web nominee\, he currently teaches workshops for the Older Writer’s Lab in conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library as well as the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute. He sometimes fills in as drummer for the U.S. Ghostal Service. \nTim Xonnelly was an LA poet in the late 1980s; co-facilitator of the Beyond Baroque Poetry Workshop\, curator of the poetry series at Angel’s Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro\, frequently published in Shattersheet and The Moment. Since 1991 he’s lived and worked in Downtown Berkeley. He taught disabled adults in a community-based program through ARC. Since 2000\, he’s worked as a para-educator in the Berkeley Unified School District\, specializing with students severely affected by autism. He served as the president of the Classified Union 2006-2008. His chapbooks include Velcro Heart (1989)\, A Season in Bed (1998)\, and I skip the long ones too (2004). His poems are featured in the anthologies Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (2015) and 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo Poets at Coffee Cartel (2018). Recent poetry publications include The Racket Quarantine Journal\, Berkeley Times\, The Oakland Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, and the Naked Bulb. \n \n– OTHER PARTICIPATING AUTHORS + EVENTS –  \nJanuary 29\, 2021: Karla Brundage\, Jennifer Hasegawa\, Tureeda Mikell\, and Kim Shuck responding to the mural We Want Respect\, Freedom\, Land\, Housing\, Justice\, Peace\, Bread by Emory Douglas/Black Panther Party / Remix by CUBA\, D8\, MACE \nJune 25\, 2021: Youssef Alaoui\, Jason Bayani\, Genny Lim\, and Michael Warr responding to the mural The Will To Live by Art Forces\, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC)\, and Arab Youth Organizing (AYO) \n– ABOUT THE CURATORS –  \nMegan Wilson is a visual artist\, writer\, and activist based in San Francisco. Wilson has been a core organizer of Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) since 2001. In 2018 she co-directed and co-organized (with Christopher Statton and Nano Warsono) CAMP’s second international exchange and residency project\, Bangkit /Arise between artists from Yogyakarta\, Indonesia and San Francisco/Bay Area in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The second phase of the project will take place 2021-22. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito\, California (2016 – 2018)\, and her poetry collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House will be published by Omnidawn in October 2020. \nYou can read more about CAMP and Wall + Response here. \n— \nThis virtual event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-wall-response-celeste-chan-mk-chavez-paul-corman-roberts-tim-xonnelly/
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