Heidi Boisvert

The urgency of political hope — CfTC What good is hope in a time led by charlatans and monsters?  In our present moment, forces aligned toward extraction, opportunism, oppression, and violence seem to have gained momentum over our ...

How do artists practice hope in challenging times? @cftchange.bsky.social brings together creators exploring the urgency of art & creativity to fuel political hope right now. Thank you @linasrivastava.bsky.social for the invite to participate.
#TransformationalChange #PoliticalHope #ArtForChange

Salon - Techspressionism Techspressionist Salons were conceived as a modern counterpart to the Surrealist salons of the 1920’s, in which artists could meet to discuss ideas.

Techspressionist's salons are free and held over zoom. Visit the link to learn more and join us for this salon where bodies, technologies, microbes, and cosmic forces co-produce understanding.

📍 Zoom
📅 Jan 8 | 12 - 1:30PM
#artists #tech #storytelling

Moderating Techspressionist's Salon 102: Art–Science Intra-Action: New Modes of Knowledge Production w/ artists @laurasplan.bsky.social, Janet Biggs, Sue Huang, & Gal Nissam.
Topics: models of embodied knowledge construction | intimacy of data | research as storytelling.

Salon - Techspressionism Techspressionist Salons were conceived as a modern counterpart to the Surrealist salons of the 1920’s, in which artists could meet to discuss ideas.

Join me, 6 other artists & moderator Erin Ko for Techspressionist Salon: Salon 99 – Floating Questions. We're discussing digital privilege, media literacy, and creative agency in our connected culture.

📅Oct 2nd
🕛12pm with an afterparty
🗺️Zoom
Free and open to the public - pre-register 🔗 below

YouTube video by CGTN America Global Business: Future of Artificial General Intelligence

I’ll continue to experiment w/ AI, data, multi-agent performance, affective computing and the human body in my creative practice bc it's a valuable way to think about interdisciplinary contributions to value-aligned frameworks for AI.

#AI #TechEthics #AGI

Spoke w/ CGTN America about #AGI. In short, predicting when is difficult for superficial reasons, but tech & computationally we need to solve: generalized access domains, common sense reasoning, self directed learning, robustness of dealing w/ environmental unpredictably, & theory of mind.

Speaking at Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at GWU as part of their Studio Arts and Design Research + Practice conversation series! Free + open to the public!

📅 Wed, Feb 26, 2025
⏰ 6:30–8:00 PM
📍500 17th Street Northwest Washington, DC 20052

Still pulling this together... but here is a great starter pack for folks who are centering cultural strategy and live in the intersection of culture & politics. It's clearly not exhaustive, so feel free to tag underneath who you think I should add!

go.bsky.app/Eq85pX1