Joel McKim
@joel_mckim
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Digital Media, Art, Design and Architecture. Reader at Birkbeck, U of London. Director of Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology @VasariCentre
London, England
Joined May 2016
Great opening talk in this series by @AlexGrzankowski last night. Looking forward to delivering the next Critical AI lecture on Tuesday. Please join us:
Join us Tuesday 19 Nov online or in person for the second in the Birkbeck Critical Voices in AI lecture series. Vasari director @joel_mckim will discuss the world modeling claims of current text to video AI models. https://t.co/1TYiOb8dqI
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Join us @BirkbeckUoL on 6 May for talk by historian and theorist of technology @simone_natale "Projecting Life Onto Machines." Discussing the illusion of intelligence from Victorian seances to contemporary AI. #artsweek
https://t.co/NCiGKScxVG
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Please join us 12 February @BirkbeckUoL for a guest lecturer by digital anthropologist @PBialski. Paula will discusses her brilliant new book Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough. @PrincetonUPress
https://t.co/ecoTuxPxpk
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Gaza is covered in 42 million tonnes of rubble. The enduring human, environmental, and economic consequences of the immense toxic detritus of genocide—towering piles of debris that also bury an estimated 10,000 dead—are just staggering https://t.co/VW0v9nCSiQ
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First night of @JenniferWalshe residency @Cafeoto last night. “Some Notes on Martian Sonic Aesthetics, 2034-51, Vol I & II” was a speculative futurist audio and visual treat. w/ @panosghikas Nick Roth and Lee Patterson
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Our Yuk Hui talk tomorrow evening is fully booked. Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Join us @BirkbeckUoL on 1 November for a public talk by philosopher of technology Yuk Hui @digital_objects. Hui will introduce ideas from his new book Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking @UMinnPress . All welcome: https://t.co/DJMdee0537
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Join us @BirkbeckUoL on 1 November for a public talk by philosopher of technology Yuk Hui @digital_objects. Hui will introduce ideas from his new book Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking @UMinnPress . All welcome: https://t.co/DJMdee0537
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Lyd (2023, Younis, Sarah Ema Friedland) is a speculative documentary that follows the rise and fall of Lyd a 5,000-year-old metropolis that was a bustling Palestinian town, until it was taken over by the state of Israel Screening 4/10 Full details: https://t.co/xTSfyCiVHT
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Join us @BirkbeckUoL 28 June to celebrate the 30 year history of seminal digital culture and media art magazine @_neural and launch of editor Alessandro Ludovico's book Tactical Publishing @mitpress. With discussions and music by Scanner @robinrimbaud. https://t.co/uZlJogkIsZ
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Terramorphosis II: Patterns Symposium at Birkbeck 26 January. This is a big one! Speakers include Katherine Hayles, Wolfgang Ernst, Mark Hansen, Olga Goriunova, Paco Calvo, Giuseppe Longo... Join us online. #EHCN
https://t.co/Qa6Fs9VmlP
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Myself & @joel_mckim had our portraits done this morning by an emerging Irish artist from Catford 💚
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Action shot from last week’s brilliant Sculpting Time with Computers workshop on ML and computer vision approaches to moving image organized by @dchavezheras @KingsCollegeLon
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Nice day yesterday at the Making Visual Art/Work in the AI Era event at Darwin College. Great panel discussion with Maya Indira Ganesh @nd_kane Robyn Butler @LeoImpett and @mynameispamela
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a reflexive moment in #PaulBrown’s talk last night @ Birkbeck in dialogue w @joel_mckim. We launched print version of his new exhibition catalogue, inc. my essay: “First Gen Generative: Paul Brown’s Art of Code, Colour, Line & Movement”. PDF here: https://t.co/WGaPM3U3He
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Looking forward to being in conversation with computer art pioneer Paul Brown at this great event organized by Bronac Ferran @floatingstones
We’re pleased to support this 16 June event organized by Bronac Fernan @floatingstones exploring what AI systems can learn from engaging with artists and writers. With computer art pioneer Paul Brown and readings by @tony_white_
https://t.co/UlhATjtNGO
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After a delay I’m really happy this podcast conversation with @aylishwood is now out. Aylish speaks incredibly eloquently about 3D software, digital animation and generative design. The last of the Data Materiality series I hosted with @rodgers_scott co-sponsored by @BIRMAC_BBK
Excited to release the final episode of our Data Materiality podcast series! We speak with Aylish Wood about digital animation, generative algorithms and the complicated relationship between artists and the software they use. https://t.co/JUi8TNQGgP
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We’re very pleased to be hosting artist @annaridler this Friday at our Latent Space: From Datasets to Digital Heritage event at @birkbeck_arts. Anna will lead a workshop on text to image models and DIY datasets. Still a few spaces available: https://t.co/Pb6boyehwo
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We’re thrilled to have Aarati Akkapeddi visiting us at the Vasari Centre as our artist in residence. Aarati is working on machine learning and South Asian museum collections. #EHCN Join us for a workshop on Datasets and Digital Heritage this Friday: https://t.co/Pb6boyePlW
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