In this roundtable, Joel Stern and Sean Dockray will be animating a hands-on experience, taken from their current Machine Listening project. Participants will listen with (and through AI) a system to generate a shared experience of where AI (and Machine Learning) sits in relation to human experience – where it fails, where it hallucinates, where it modulates our sense of sounds. Then, we will reflect on the experience collectively.

Convened by Fabio Mattioli, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Melbourne, and Associated Researcher at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics.

Participants: 

Joel Stern (artist, curator and researcher; Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at RMIT School of Media and Communication). 

Sean Dockray (artist and writer; Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Monash University; founding director of the Los Angeles non-profit Telic Arts Exchange, and initiator of knowledge-sharing platforms, The Public School and AAAARG.ORG.) 

 

Respondent: 

Prof. Chris Danta (ARC Future Fellow (2021-24) and professor of English at UNSW).