Molly Soda is a NYC-based artist, designer, writer, and educator. Her distinctly post-internet creative practice bridges the worlds of performance art and Internet art, often drawing from her own experience as an Incredibly-Online individual as well as from a rich archive of digital artifacts accumulated over the past two decades. Her work spans a variety […]

In this presentation, Erin McElroy will discuss Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times, just published with Duke University Press with Matt Bui. The book maps out processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and also looks at […]

A conversation with UMSI Assistant Professor of Information Oliver L. Haimson, author of Trans Technologies (MIT Press), hosted by UMSI Professor Kishonna Gray, on how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology. Book signing and reception to follow. Free book copies for the first […]

Event Abstract: In this talk, Elisa Giardina Papa will outline the theoretical and archival research which informs two of her experimental video installations, Cleaning Emotional Data and “U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale. Presenting images she collected while working as a “data cleaner” for various AI systems, she will address the ways in which machines are […]