Assistant Professor of Multi-Disciplinary Design Milad Mozari creates a site-specific installation that takes on sounds from a nearby beehive in conversation with a generative modular synthesizer. As an iteration of ongoing sonification research, the work recreates the information captured through an omnidirectional microphone and speaker...
In his presentation, Prof. Lawson will cover some of the tools and techniques that academic researchers might borrow from the world of open source intelligence (OSINT) for finding and collecting digital data online for use in qualitative research. He will introduce a mix of both...
When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all. Digital Matters will be hosting a screening of...
A panel of: Sarah Sinwell, David Roh, Trevor Smith and Rebekah Cummings will be discussing the Coded Bias documentary. If you missed our screening event of the film feel free to log into the Marriott Library and follow this link.
In popular usage, “Luddite” denotes a curmudgeonly hater of technology – someone backward-looking, ignorant, and ultimately ineffectual. The eponymous nineteenth-century saboteurs, however, were not opposed to technology tout court, but rather to mechanization in the service of capitalism, and instead of looking backward they were...
Lisa Swanstrom - Associate Professor of English The relationship between Science Fiction and digital culture is intimate—perhaps overly so, in that it is difficult not to think of computational technology as somehow in cahoots with its various guises in popular culture. While it’s sketchy to...
Laurie Larson - M.Arch Candidate
Kaylee Alexander - Digital Matters Post Doctorate Fellow Join Zoom Meeting https://utah.zoom.us/j/95013775304 Meeting ID: 950 1377 5304 Passcode: digmat
