Events

Upcoming

April 03, 2026 Sam Kellogg (U Montana)

Computational Earthwork: The U.S. Highway System and the Dawn of Digital Terrain Modeling

April 20, 2026 Terry Winograd (Stanford)

What’s Up With AI?

Past Events

2026

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