Human Entities Podcast

Jun 18 2024 22 ep. 94 mins 9

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Human Entities is a series of public talks focused on technological change and its impacts – the ways in which culture and technology shape and influence each other.

Organised by CADA, the programme takes place annually in Lisbon.

Listen to recordings from 2024 to 2016.

In partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the Fine Arts Faculty, ULisbon
Funded by: The Dir.-Gen. for the Arts of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture

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Human Entities 2024: Monica Gagliano

Jun 18 2024 139 mins

Human Entities 2024: culture in the age of artificial intelligenceEighth edition, 15 May 2024 Plant consciousnessMonica GaglianoEvolutionary ecologist, Research Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Southern Cross University, Australia Monica Gagliano PhD is an internationally award-winning research scientist, selected by Biohabitats as one of the 24 most Inspiring Women of Ecology,

Human Entities 2024: Jay Springett (Solarpunk)

Jun 18 2024 86 mins

Human Entities 2024: culture in the age of artificial intelligenceEighth edition, 5 June 2024 Solarpunk means dreaming greenJay SpringettStrategist and writer Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?” In our current age of pop

Human Entities 2024: Matteo Pasquinelli

Jun 18 2024 75 mins

Human Entities 2024: culture in the age of artificial intelligenceEighth edition, 29 May 2024 Artificial Intelligence Design and the Logic of Social CooperationMatteo PasquinelliAssociate Professor in Philosophy of Science, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice A conversation around the book “The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence” with the author Matteo

Human Entities 2024: Giorgio Gristina

Jun 18 2024 91 mins

Human Entities 2024: culture in the age of artificial intelligenceEighth edition, 22 May 2024 Pluralizing psychedelic experiencesGiorgio GristinaPhD candidate, DANT (ICS-ULisboa), Systems Neuroscience Lab (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) Potential groundbreaking therapeutic applications are fuelling a resurgence of scientific and clinical interest towards psychedelic compounds

Human Entities 2023: Joanna Bryson

Jun 06 2023 102 mins

Human Entities 2023: culture in the age of artificial intelligenceSeventh edition, Wednesday 17 May 2023 Authorship, Agency, and Moral ObligationJoanna BrysonProfessor of Ethics and Technology in the Centre for Digital Governance at Hertie School in Berlin How much of our individual human experience can we absorb into machine models when we use machine learning and a huge amount o

Human Entities 2023: Orit Halpern

Jun 06 2023 98 mins

Human Entities 2023: culture in the age of artificial intelligenceSeventh edition, Wednesday 3 May 2023 Smart PowerOrit HalpernFull Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures and Societal Change at Technische Universität Dresden Today, growing concerns with climate change, energy scarcity, security, and economic volatility have turned the focus of urban planners, investors, scientist

Human Entities 2023: Manuel Arriaga + Pedro Magalhães

Jun 06 2023 112 mins

Human Entities 2023: culture in the age of artificial intelligenceSeventh edition, Wednesday 26 April 2023 Rebooting democracyManuel Arriaga + Pedro MagalhãesManuel Arriaga is a university professor and one of the founders of the Fórum dos Cidadãos; Pedro Magalhães is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon Democracy is a technology of collective

Human Entities 2023: Mark Leckey

Jun 06 2023 117 mins

Human Entities 2023: culture in the age of artificial intelligenceSeventh edition, Wednesday 19 April 2023 Artist talkMark Leckey Mark Leckey is one of the most influential artists working today. Since the late 1990s, his work has looked at the relationship between popular culture and technology as well as exploring the subjects of youth, class and nostalgia. He works with sculptu

Human Entities 2022: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Nov 08 2022 93 mins

Organized in partnership with the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Communication Design and of Multimedia Arts departments Discriminating Data, a conversation with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Canada 150 Chair in New Media, Director, Digital Democracies Institute In Discriminating Data [2021], Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goa

Human Entities 2022: Paola Torres Núñez del Prado

Jul 29 2022 76 mins

Artist Talk Paola Torres Núñez del Prado Artist Somewhat similar to what it is commonly said about migrants, autonomous machines are taken to be a potential threat to some human labour. In military environments, these systems and their efficiency can, in fact, be more lethal than those controlled by people. This idea allows us to roll back to the core definition of intelligence w