Events

Upcoming

September 11, 2026 Leonardo Impett (Cambridge) and Fabian Offert (UCSB)
Book talk, Vector Media
October 09, 2026 Webb Keane (U Michigan)
Title TBD
October 30, 2026 Sal Hagen (U Amsterdam)
Title TBD

Past Events

2026

April 20, 2026 Terry Winograd (Stanford)
What’s Up With AI?
April 03, 2026 Sam Kellogg (U Montana)
Computational Earthwork: The U.S. Highway System and the Dawn of Digital Terrain Modeling
March 09, 2026 Cultural AI
Three-day conference
February 13, 2026 Alijan Ozkiral (NYU)
Slop Practices
February 06, 2026 Ellie Pavlick (Brown)
(How) Does AI Think?

2025

November 21, 2025 Hannes Bajohr (Berkeley)
The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel: World Models in AI and Literature
November 20, 2025 Hannes Bajohr (Berkeley) and Stephen Marche
AI and the Novel
November 07, 2025 Sarah Pourciau (Duke)
Symbolic Throughput
October 30, 2025 Leif Weatherby (NYU), with Ben Recht (Berkeley)
From Language Machines to Decision Machines - and Back
October 13, 2025 Karen Hao
Book talk, Empire of AI
October 10, 2025 Zachary Stine (UCA)
On The Differential Meaning of Models
September 19, 2025 Felicia Jing, Juana Becerra, and Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
On Emplotment: Phantom Islands, Synthetic Data, and the Coloniality of Simulated Algorithmic Space
May 02, 2025 Lily Chumley (NYU)
(Semiotic) Multimodality Versus the Media of Research
April 25, 2025 Naja LeFevre Grundtmann (SDU)
Smooth Tex(x)tures
April 21, 2025 Imogen Forbes-Macphail (Harvard)
On the Four-Color Theorem and the Aesthetics of Computational Proof
April 11, 2025 Mercedes Bunz (KCL)
On the Calculation of Meaning
February 06, 2025 Vernacular AI
Two-day symposium

2024

November 15, 2024 Jed Dobson (Dartmouth)
On Reading and Interpreting Black Box Deep Neural Networks
November 01, 2024 Beatrice Fazi (Sussex)
The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI
October 25, 2024 Cliff Siskin (NYU)
The Advancement of Knowledge
October 04, 2024 Johan Malmstedt (Umeå) and Sebastian Breu (Humboldt)
The Similarity Engine: Towards a Media History of Vector Modeling
September 20, 2024 Kyunghyun Cho (NYU) and Nick Seaver (Tufts)
Oral History of Neural Nets (with NYU’s Center for Data Science)
May 29, 2024 Semiotic Machines: Artificial Text and the Praxis of Reading
Three-day conference
April 24, 2024 Kathrin Maurer (SDU)
Book talk, The Drone Sensorium
April 19, 2024 Stephanie Dick (SFU)
The Marxist in the Machine
April 05, 2024 James Duesterberg
Zero Signifier
February 23, 2024 Allison Parrish (NYU)
Computation, Collage, and the Cut
February 02, 2024 Yohei Igarashi (U Conn)
Understanding Literary Science ca. 1930
January 26, 2024 Cameron Buckner (UF)
Book talk, From Deep Learning to Rational Machines

2023

December 01, 2023 Yining Shi (NYU)
Building AI Video Generation Tools on the Web
November 06, 2023 Tal Linzen (NYU)
On Planting Trees in Language Models
September 29, 2023 Tyler Shoemaker (UC Davis)
Distributional Semantics without Distributionalism
September 22, 2023 Re-Interpretation
Hermeneutics in the Age of AI
March 30, 2023 N. Katherine Hayles and Terrence W. Deacon
Signs of Artificial Life: A Symposium and Debate
March 27, 2023 Jason Phang (NYU)
On Wolfram and LLMs

2022

December 02, 2022 Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (Notre Dame)
On Addressability
November 18, 2022 Ryan Healey (NYU)
Engineering Abstraction: A Literary History
November 04, 2022 Avery Slater (U Toronto)
Post-Automation Poetics
October 21, 2022 Tung-Hui Hu
Book talk, Digital Lethargy
September 09, 2022 Shane Denson
Mediality as Power of the Flesh
May 05, 2022 What Is Digital Theory?
One-day symposium
April 22, 2022 Claire Song (NYU)
Machine Language 2.0: The Total Modeling of Meaning in Artificial Neural Networks
April 08, 2022 Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Université Paris 8)
Synhaptic Sensibility
April 01, 2022 Galit Wellner (Tel Aviv University)
The Co-Shaping of Algorithmic Imagination
March 11, 2022 David Bates (UC Berkeley)
Plasticity and Pathology
February 18, 2022 Jonathan Zong (MIT)
Rich Screen Reader Experiences for Accessible Data Visualization
February 04, 2022 Alasdair Milne (KCL)
Machine Learning and Collaborative Systems of Artistic-Curatorial Practice

2021

December 10, 2021 Critical Inquiry: Surplus Data
Special issue launch
December 03, 2021 Richard Müller (Institute of Czech Literature, Prague)
The Information (Cybernetics) Moment
December 01, 2021 David Deutsch (Oxford)
Quantum Computation
November 19, 2021 Visvanathan Ramesh (Goethe University Frankfurt)
AI, AGI, and the Center for Cognition and Computation
October 29, 2021 Lydia Liu (Columbia)
Wittgenstein in the Machine
May 07, 2021 Lila Lee-Morrison (SDU)
Machinic Landscapes: Aesthetics of the Non-Human
April 23, 2021 Brian Cantwell Smith (University of Toronto)
The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
April 09, 2021 Paola Ricaurte (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
De-colonizing AI Ethics
April 06, 2021 Claire Song (NYU)
Code War: A Transnational History of Machine Translation and Intelligence in East Asia, the Soviet Union, and the United States
March 26, 2021 Sam Kellogg (NYU)
On High Ground: Mountains, Geopolitics, Alpine Media
March 16, 2021 Ryan Healey (NYU)
A History of Abstraction?
March 05, 2021 Matteo Pasquinelli (Ca' Foscari)
Material Tools of Algorithmic Thinking
February 26, 2021 Jeffrey Kirkwood (Binghamton)
From Work to Proof-of-Work: Meaning and Value after Blockchain
February 05, 2021 Mercedes Bunz (KCL)
How Not to be Governed like that by our Digital Technologies

2020

December 04, 2020 Sam Kellogg (NYU)
On AI and Metaphor
November 20, 2020 Beatrice Fazi (Sussex)
Beyond Human: Deep Learning, Explainability and Representation
November 13, 2020 Rae Bruml Norton (NYU)
If You Give a Mouse Gilbert Simondon
October 23, 2020 Colin Koopman (University of Oregon)
The Political Theory of Data: Institutions, Algorithms and Formats
October 02, 2020 Jonathan Zong (MIT / CSAIL)
Designing Digital Systems to Theorize Collective Power
September 18, 2020 Clifford Siskin (NYU)
Enlightenment and the Vectors of Information
July 10, 2020 Allison Parrish (NYU)
Conversation on NLP
April 24, 2020 Lila Lee-Morrison (Lund University)
Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition
March 04, 2020 Shannon Mattern (Penn) and John Durham Peters (Yale)
Meteorological Media
February 28, 2020 Matthew Trager (NYU)
Functions and Deep Learning

2019

November 18, 2019 Tyler Harper (NYU)
Environmental Nihilism: Human Extinction Before the Bomb
May 28, 2019 Digital Theory Summer School, King's College London
Two-day symposium
May 03, 2019 William Falcon
AI Research and Engineering
April 26, 2019 Matthew Trager (NYU)
Computer Vision, Geometry, and Machine Learning
April 22, 2019 Joe Lemelin (NYU)
Aristotle and Machine Learning
April 12, 2019 Alfredo Canziani (NYU)
Workshop: Convolutional Neural Networks
February 22, 2019 Alfredo Canziani (NYU)
Workshop: Python and Neural Network Architecture

2018

December 05, 2018 Pete de Bolla (Cambridge)
Politics in the Era of Emergent Hyper-Connectivity
November 07, 2018 Mohamed Zahran (NYU)
How Fortran Is Built Out of Assembly
October 23, 2018 Dennis Tenen (Columbia)
Platform Reading: Workshop on the Poetics of Computation
October 16, 2018 Zeena Feldman (KCL Digital Humanities)
Simmel in Cyberspace / Data Detox Workshop