technology

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

CSTV Movie night: Blade Runner

Join us to enjoy and discuss the classic Sci-Fi movie (1982) by Ridley Scott!Ìý Free popcorn!Ìý Free admittance!Ìý Screening followed by a discussion of the movie's relation to technology and society today!

Open to all À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ students, staff, and faculty.

See you March 4 @ 6:30pm in E5 6004!

Friday, January 24, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Critical Tech Talk 11: Speculative Imaginaries and Technological Design

The Critical Media Lab is excited to invite you to register forÌýCritical Tech Talk 11:ÌýSpeculative Imaginaries and Technological DesignÌýwith guest speaker Sherryl Vint, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, on how speculative fictionÌýcan help us cultivate a more inclusive social imagination.

This is a virtual event taking place on Zoom, Friday January 24thÌýat 3:00 PM. Full details are below.ÌýRegistration is required using this link.Ìý

We look forward to you joining us!

About the talk:ÌýSpeculative fiction (sf) is an influential mode that shapes how we imagine what technologies and futures we find desirable, feasible, and valuable. But whose values inform imagined techno-utopian futures? How can we draw on the power of sf if we understand the genre not as a storehouse of technologies we might one day create, but instead as a critical engagement with the way that technology inevitably shapes the social world in ways that extend far beyond its intended use? Using the example of the intersection of sf with disability studies, this talk will outline how sf can function as a mode of enquiry, a rhetorical tool that can help us guide technological development toward greater inclusion and equity by opening new perspectives on the problems technology seeks to solve. Focusing on the specific example of sf written from the perspective of people with disability, it will show how such fictions can help us understand how to cultivate a more capacious social imagination as a crucial element of equitable and inclusive technological design.

Sherryl VintÌýis Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside, where she founded the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. She has published widely on science fiction, including, most recently, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction (2021), Science Fiction: The Essential Knowledge (2021), and Programming the Future: Speculative Television and the End of Democracy (2022, co-authored with Jonathan Alexander). She was a founding editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and is the Managing Editor of Science Fiction Studies and editor of book series Science in Popular Culture.

Thursday, November 10, 2022 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

CSTV movie night: Rossum's Universal Robots

Join us to watch and discuss a performance ofÌýKarel ÄŒapek's (1920) play "," the work that introduced the word and concept of "robot" to the world. Ìý

When robots rise up, will humanity fall?

See you on November 10 at 7pm in E5 6006. ÌýFree admittance & free popcorn!

ThisÌýperformance is a presentation of .

Artificial intelligence will take your job! Genetic engineering will accelerate the loss of biodiversity! The modern smart-city is a privacy disaster! Killer robots and technological progress are out of control! Is the techno-apocalypse upon us? Should we run for the exit? Or are there more nuanced ways to understand the complex interaction between technology and society and values?

Monday, November 8, 2021 5:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and its limits

Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff –ÌýThe digital frontier and its limits

Monday, NovemberÌý8, 2021, 5 PM |ÌýTheatre of the Arts, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, in-personÌýand livestreamed |ÌýÌý