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SUMMARY:AI and The Paradox of Agency
DESCRIPTION:Who holds the power when AI enters our lives? AI and the Paradox of Agency is curated by  Sarah Cook\, WASP-HS Guest Professor\, and Museum Director Katarina Pierre\, and features new commissions by international artists\, from interactive games and immersive installations to sculptures and a drone-read hand-painted textile. \nThe exhibition is open between 13 March\, 2026 and 17 January 2027. \nArtists: boredomresearch\, Tega Brain\, Dennis Delgado\, Linda Dounia Rebeiz\, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg\, Nicolas Gourault\, Zeno Gries\, Lawrence Lek\, Rachel Maclean\, Stephen Marche\, Lauren Lee McCarthy\, Florian Model\, Yuri Pattison\, Planetary Portals\, Raqs Media Collective\, Daniel Shanken\, Caroline Sinders & Romy Gad el Rab\, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado\, and Addie Wagenknecht. Curators: Sarah Cook and Katarina Pierre. \nAI and the Paradox of Agency is produced by Bildmuseet at Umeå University with support from the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation and WASP-HS (Wallenberg AI\, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society). \n			\n				Read more
URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/ai-and-the-paradox-of-agency/
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SUMMARY:Somatic Freedoms: Reconfiguring Human-Machine Ethical Relations — PhD Defense
DESCRIPTION:On 28 August 2026\, Rachael Garrett defends her doctoral thesis\, “Somatic Freedoms: Reconfiguring Human-Machine Ethical Relations“\, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. \nSee event. \nAbstract\nSomatic freedoms are ethical commitments to bodies as whole\, living and corporeal subjectivities within processes of research and design. They view ethical sensibilities as grounded in our bodies and felt experiences\, and intimately shaped by our interpersonal\, socio-cultural\, and political relations. This position argues that embodied ethical knowledge is implicit in many aspects of research and design practice\, as well as our interactions with machines. I explore felt experiences of ethics across three multidisciplinary art and design collaborations: (i) Robots\, Dance\, Different Bodies\, (ii) Embrace Angels\, and (iii) How to Train Your Drone. Across these projects\, I investigate how misalignments between ethical sensibilities can invite deeper modes of allyship; how frictions between sensibilities can be engaged to forge bridges between interdisciplinary practitioners; how sensibilities are practiced within human-machine interactions; and how we might design machines that can support bodies in uncovering potential pathways to ethical transformation. \nAcross these projects\, I chart the development of somatic freedoms as ethical commitments to bodies and the vibrant\, material and corporeal pursuit of change and transformation. These are commitments to creating conditions in which transformation is supported\, enhancing the possibilities available to bodies to achieve change\, facilitating the processes through which bodies transform their relations with the world\, and by extension\, change how they are constituted within those relations. My papers demonstrate processes of human-machine ethical reconfiguration: the ongoing reorganisation of relations between bodies and machines through which ethical transformation can be realised. These processes require traversing the boundaries of our bodies within our relational engagements with the world around us\, experiencing ourselves as subjects who move but also objects that are moved within those encounters. This is a process by which bodies can engage in the work of ethics\, seek out better ways of relating to each other\, meet new ethical challenges\, and move towards conditions of flourishing. \nSee full thesis. \nSupervisors\n– Professor Kristina Höök\, Media Technology and Interaction Design; KTH– Professor Airi Lampinen\, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences\, Stockholm University \nOpponent\n– Associate Professor\, Docent Katherine Harrison\, Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA)\, Linköping University
URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/phd-defense-somatic-freedoms-reconfiguring-human-machine-ethical-relations/
LOCATION:F3 (Flodis)\, Lindstedtsvägen 26 & 28\, Stockholm
CATEGORIES:PhD Defense
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