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James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is sure to be another landmark event in the development of Critical AI Studies.

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Dez Miller @dezmiller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Very excited for this!

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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 24/09/2026

The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there!

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looking forward to attending & presenting at the upcoming “Critical AI Studies?” conference, organized by @zentralwerkstatt.org and @owenleonard.bsky.social at UCSB: huml.ucsb.edu/conference

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meson press @mesonpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚀 Digital version is out! 🚀 BUT we do think this one 📕 is so beautiful thanks to the 💨 cover pic by Trevor Paglen @paglen.studio -> everyone should get the real thing. 📚 @zentralwerkstatt.org @uminnpress.bsky.social also Leo Impett & Johanna Drucker meson.press/books/vector...

Three different books of Meson Press series "In Search Of Media". On top 'Vector Media', and in the background 'Digital Theory' and 'Neural Networks'.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Last day to submit! Deadline is today!

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I posted on arXiv.org the preprint of my “AI Virtue: What Is ‘Good’ Knowledge in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?” arxiv.org/abs/2607.01776, which is forthcoming in a double special issue of “MFS Modern Fiction Studies on “Cultural AI” in 2027.

Screenshot of preprint abstract:

"In the age of AI, what will be good knowledge? This article, which is accepted and forthcoming in a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on "Cultural AI" in 2027, applies digital humanities methods to map epistemic virtues (like "true," "accurate," "creative") used in a corpus of 553 journal articles on AI published in 2024. "Creativity" comes in for special attention as an example. Exploring this discourse of value, the article considers how a framework might be developed for evaluating the knowledge-worth of AI -- one less locked into values formed around pre-AI "knowledge work" agents or structures, and more open to the future values of "generativity." The essay is supported by an online digital kit for exploring data models of the corpus of articles on AI it studies."

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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 23/06/2026

Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.

Poster for the conference "Critical Artificial Intelligence Studies?" at the University of California, Santa Barbara, October 9&10, 2026. The subtitle says "An interdisciplinary conference on a field in formation."

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James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Bound to be one of the most important critical and theoretical books on the meaning of neural networks (and not just for vision). Congratulations to Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org! Freshly published from meson press and University of Minnesota Press. @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 29/04/2026

Vector Media is out today!

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Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

11am/8pm (Boston time) tomorrow!

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Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Join us for a follow-up conference to Cultural Politics of the Computational Image, this time online. Friday, January 23, day/night. Register for the zooms at: globalmediations.mit.edu/cpci-workshop/

Poster for "More Cultural Politics of the Computational Image," Friday Jan 23, 2026.

Schedule
SESSION 1. 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
Amitabh Vikram (Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University), “Holy Pixels: Temple CCTV, Darshan Livestreams, and Crowd Vision”
Ann Wang (University of Pennsylvania), “Amphibious Tropics: Automation, Extraction, and the Imaging (Making) of Malaysia’s Geospatial Landscape”
Hansun Hsiung (Durham University), “NHK Engineers Meet Media Theory: The Televisual Image in Japan’s ‘Informationalizing Society’”

SESSION 2. 8:00 – 9:30 PM EST
Ding-Liang Chen (National Tsing Hua University), “Prospecting Resource: Early Satellite Vision and War Ecologies in Southeast Asia”
Joia Duskic (UCLA), “The Procession Does Not Proceed, It Gets Prompted from the Sidelines”
Yedong Sh-Chen (Harvard University), “Under the Chinese Skin: A Digital Dermatology of Video Games”

Register at https://globalmediations.mit.edu/cpci-workshop/

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

New article in AI & Society with @richardjeanso.bsky.social and @hoytlong.bsky.social 🎉 We wanted to know how AI might affect cultural fields like literary publishing. But cultural production is complex! So we piloted a new method we call “social simulation.” rdcu.be/eTkMy

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The social AI author: modeling creativity and distinction in simulated cultural fields

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Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Building on the great papers from our Global Mediations workshop this past April, we're launching a CFP for additional contributions to an anthology on the global contestation of computational imaging. Details below; proposals due 9/13

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Cultural Politics of the Computational Image: CFP – Global Mediations Lab

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

My personal 5-min. video: vimeo.com/84252711 on why humanities matter. I can’t improve on the message. But my passion now is the Center for Humanities Communication, which I cofounded to assist the humanities in methods, resources, tools for telling its _why_, center-humanities-communication.org

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Why the Humanities Matter -- A Story About Borders

A story and statement about the importance of the humanities in today's world by Alan Liu, an English professor who started out a chemistry major. Video created…

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Happy to to announce that @mellonfoundation has awarded our Center for Humanities Communication (CHC) a $150,000 grant (via @aacu.org, which supports CHC in the role of our fiscal sponsor). Our news release: center-humanities-communication.org/chc-blog/new...

ALT-TEXT: Screenshot of top of Center for Humanities Communications’ news release on its new Mellon Foundation grant. Shown is text that reads:
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Center for Humanities Communication Receives $150,000 Mellon Foundation Grant to Start Work
Feb. 2, 2025 — How can scholars, creatives, and others working in the humanities better communicate their work to the public? How can humanities communicators–like their science communicator colleagues–benefit from professional training for needed roles in education, the media, cultural and entertainment industries, non-profits, and elsewhere? And what new materials and tools can they invent for telling the humanities’ story across platforms?
To jump start the Center for Humanities Communication (CHC) in creating training and resources to address such questions, the Mellon Foundation has awarded the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) a grant of $150,000 to help launch the recently formed CHC. (The AAC&U supports the CHC as it establishes itself by acting as its fiscal sponsor.) (Read more .)
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(The full news release is at: https://center-humanities-communication.org/chc-blog/news-release-center-for-humanities-communication-receives-150000-mellon-foundation-grant-to-start-work/)

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Brilliant talk today by Hannes Bajohr (@hannesbajohr.de) on “Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text & its Styles” at launch of UCSB Center for the Humanities & Machine Learning (huml.ucsb.edu/events). Bajohr is 2nd from left with (L to R) ‪@zentralwerkstatt.org, Rita Raley, & @owenleonard.bsky.social.

Fabian Offert, Hannes Bajohr, Rita Raley, & Owen Leonard (seated in photo left to right) at a table under a screen showing the title slide of Bajohr’s talk on “Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles.” (Slide consists of white san-serif text against a dark background without images.)

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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 22/01/2025

If you're in the SBA area, join @ritaraley.bsky.social and myself this Friday, 3-5 for the opening of our newly established Center for the Humanities and Machine Learning, feat. a keynote by @hannesbajohr.de! huml.ucsb.edu

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Owen Leonard @owenleonard.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

"The semantic bleaching of 'AI' as valuations climb threatens to confine Critical AI scholarship to the very cultural moment it seeks to criticize." Check out the conclusions from my survey of humanities-inflected AI critique in the U.S.: huml.ucsb.edu/report

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Report | Center for the Humanities and Machine Learning

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