Samir Bhowmik

NEW: Our co-edited book ”Unfolding Island Ecologies” with Kati Kivinen and Blanca de la Torre is out now. This collection of essays is a result of a year-long artistic research course at the University of Arts Helsinki PDF download: taju.uniarts.fi/items/0a2161...

Unfolding Island Ecologies | Uniarts Helsinki Unfolding Island Ecologies brings together international artists from the University of the Arts Helsinki whose works respond to the unique island environment of Suomenlinna.

Unfolding Island Ecologies brings together our international artists whose works respond to the unique island environment of Suomenlinna. The exhibition is open in HIAP on 5 June until 19 June.

www.uniarts.fi/en/events/un...

New Publication! We argue how the use of Machine Learning (#ML) algorithms in #choreography risks leading to a reductive and opaque formalization of choreographic decisions, often disregarding energy consumption and environmental impact. #AI #choreography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our new book "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social now has brilliant back cover blubs from N. Katherine Hayles and @djchuck.bsky.social

www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵

The series transforms archival materials to visualize the interconnections of time, space, and bodies across the history of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT).

The underlying datasets were composed over 3 yrs from over 30,000 documents located in archives across the U.S. #BHM #DataViz

Lost Islands: Performative Expeditions at the End of the World

Jussi Parikka

"The island is a microcosm of entangled ecologies, histories and technologies ... for probing larger contemporary issues haunting human culture."

#AnthropoceneIslands

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ICYMI, this issue is a landmark collection in the techno-politics and ecology of performance+ AI +automation to be read and read over again with a highlighter…

Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...

On the opposite, a race for scale in AI, leads to other power redistribution, as we discussed with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Bigger models require data and infrastructure that consolidate big actors

Let us actually democratize AI ❤️
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Screenshot of overview page of Alan Liu's undergrad course on "Data Stories," showing a course description illustrated with a Venn diagran with three intersectiing circles labeled "Narrative," "Data," and "Visuals."

My course “Data Stories: Theory & Practice of Data-driven Narratives in the Digital Age”--a humanities course for my campus’s proposed data science major. It’s crucial for the humanities to teach in this area when not a day goes by without a data-driven story in the news alanyliu.org/course/engli...

Early-career researchers in Environmental Humanities are encouraged to apply for the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships, where they will join a lively and supportive community for up to 10 months: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/early-career...

Frontiers | Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct. Recommendations for Good Scientific Practice and the Consumers of VR-Technology The goal of this article is to present a first list of ethical concerns that may arise from research and personal use of virtual reality (VR) and related tec...

Related: Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct. Recommendations for Good Scientific Practice: www.frontiersin.org/journals/rob...

RECENT PUBLICATIONS mākslas, zinātnes un kultūras inovācijām

NEW: We wrote about islands, and theorized performance as a method of critical environmental narrative. Co-authored with Jussi Parikka, a chapter in this brilliant edited collection by RIXC @rixcriga.bsky.social : rixc.org/en/acoustics...

Meta’s dedicated ”W” undersea cable - flow of data via a path of least geopolitical tension? Note the cable landings too.. techcrunch.com/2024/11/29/m...

Terra-Performing | Uniarts Helsinki Terra-Performing is a multi-disciplinary research project that investigates Extractivism by Intelligent Performance methods.

Hello! We’ve been looking into ethical practices using AI in motion capture, extraction and movement quantification,including law and guidelines. Does anyone have tips or links to literature? Appreciate any help! We’re looking into data+extractivism+performance: www.uniarts.fi/en/projects/...

Do keep us posted. We just got a grant to conduct a ”Rare Earths” field studies project with collabs in Sweden, Finland and Norway, we hope to bring it online next year starting from Abisko & Kiruna in Sweden in Spring’25.

This is brilliant!

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Geographies of Digital Wasting

Haven’t been here in a bit so for Bsky folks who may not know, @laurenebridges.bsky.social, myself, and a wonderful research team published this really cool multimedia project on e-waste called Geographies of Digital Wasting and y’all should check it out! www.geographiesofdigitalwasting.com

The Beginning of the End of Big Tech From politicians to VC firms, everyone is falling out of love with the massive, money-oriented, global technology titans. In their place, we have the chance to build something open and trustworthy.

I wrote a little end of year manifestation for you'all. MAY IT EVER BE THUS!

www.wired.com/story/the-be...

If anyone would like to the see the syllabus for my American Culture - "Cultures of AI" class about the long history of how we have imagined artificial intelligence and automation and how it reflects the way we imagine our own humanity; well here it is! drive.google.com/file/d/1LQO7...

We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

I've been thinking a lot lately about this piece that came out this spring. The imperatives of large scale corporate capitalism have squelched much of what once was (and still could be) culturally and politically democratizing about internet technology.
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

The call is open for the Digital Ecologies III: Machine / Material / Land symposium and exhibition taking place on July 24-25 2025 in Bath. I am curating the Machine Futures strand.

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#digitalecologies #artandtechnoligy #soil #land #food #machines #criticalai

Sharing this starter pack of artists working critically with technology again. It’s grown a bit in the past few days! go.bsky.app/EkpVQwY

Environment, Data, Contamination: a co-edited book with Jussi Parikka (Aarhus University, DK), result of a year-long artistic research studio with doctoral students at the University of Arts Helsinki. Our studio explored alt ways of engaging with environmental data: taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024...

Landscape revisited : ten conjunctions of art and landscape - Taju

”Lithium Landscapes” - a recent re-print (2023) in this edited collection : pdf: taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024...

YouTube video by Contestations AI Choreographies of Discard: Performance by Samir Bhowmik & Terra-Performing Group at Contestations.AI

Performance with AI as an extractive enquiry? sharing a new project ”Choreographies of Discard” @ contestations.ai, juxtaposing the labor of dance and the work of machines, both physical and computational, into a critical narrative. youtu.be/e6HCruVW2Z8