Silo City/Rigidized Metals: the Design Studio and the Willow Trellis (630 Ohio Street, Buffalo, NY 14203)
SCHEDULE
11:00 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Design Studio
- Christina Milletti, Interim Director, UB Humanities Institute
11:15 AM | Session 1 | Willow Trellis
Good Systems project: Human Values and AI
- Samuel Baker, Associate Professor, UTexas at Austin and Co-Founder Good Systems Group
- Sharon Strover, Professor, UTexas at Austin and Co-Director, Technology & Information Policy Institute
- Moderated by Kenny Joseph, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, UB
12:30 PM | Break
12:45 PM | Session 2
The Algorithmic Present-Future: Cautionary Tales | Willow Trellis
- Bruce Pitman, Professor, Materials Design and Innovation, UB
- Jasmina Tacheva, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University and PhD student, Comparative Literature, UB
- Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Julian Park Professor, Comparative Literature, UB
- Moderated by David Castillo, Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures and Co-Director, UB Center for Information Integrity
life on mars | Design Studio
- Evan Moritz, PhD student, Center for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, University of Toronto
- Kevin Williams, Associate Professor, Earth Sciences and Director, Ferguson Planetarium, SUNY Buffalo State
2:00 PM | Break
2:15 PM | Session 3
No Facts, No People: Generative Adversarial Networks | Willow Trellis
- Lindsay Brandon Hunter, Associate Professor, Theatre & Dance and Interim Executive Director, Humanities Institute, UB
- Mark Shepard, Associate Professor, Architecture and Media Study, UB
SRS (silk road songbook) | Design Studio
- Millie Chen, Professor, Art, UB
- Arzu Ozkal, Associate Professor, School of Art & Design, San Diego State University [participating as an exhibiting artist, not present]
3:30pm | Day 1 Closing Performance | Willow Trellis
- Evan Moritz, Center for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, University of Toronto performs his original piece, “Deep Time Network”
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