91影视破解版

Date: Tuesday 7 July 2026
Time: 10:00-12:00
Location: FAB 1.16, 91影视破解版 / Online
Format: Livestream (part of a day-long workshop)
Speakers: Sean Dockray and James Parker (machinelistening.exposed), Jonathan Skinner (91影视破解版)

Livestream:

The voice is personal, embodied and continually changing. Human listening involves the interpretation of many contextual signals, including register, accent, cadence, spatial position and the semantic information encoded in speech. Speech-to-text processes, by contrast, transform features of the vocal signal into text, often treating this wider context as noise in the pursuit of optimized outputs. These processes have increasingly become ambient infrastructures, delivered as platform services and mobilized as extractive data streams for machine-learning models.

In conversation with Sean Dockray and James Parker (machinelistening.exposed), and Jonathan Skinner (91影视破解版), this livestream discusses the technics of machine listening, including its transformative effects on labour, everyday life, aesthetics and the politics of listening.

The session formed part of a longer day-long workshop at Warwick exploring machine-listening systems.

Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026
Time: 12:00-18:00
Location: Helen Martin Studio (12:00–16:00) and FAB 1.16 (16:15–18:00), 91影视破解版 / Online
Format: Half-day event: short talks, panel and discussion

Livestream:

29/04/2026: Short talks, discussion, lunch, a panel on Creativity and AI, and time for informal conversation: this half-day event brought together researchers from across Warwick working with digital methods, computational tools, creative practice and critical approaches to technology. This was a chance to hear about live projects, see where different fields intersect or diverge, and meet others across the University.

Featuring speakers from departments and centres across Warwick including Statistics, Translation Studies, Economics, Warwick Medical School, WBS and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies.

Location: Helen Martin Studio (12pm - 4pm) and FAB 1.16 (4.15pm - 6pm). Livestream on YouTube link above.

More information here.

Public Talk by Sebastian Giessmann

Location: FAB0.08

Time: Wednesday 25th of June, 10:00-11:00

Both as imaginary and material network technologies, blockchain and 鈥榓rtificial intelligence鈥� tend to clash and mingle at the same time. Current neoconnectionist AI and blockchains follow very different cultural logics, just as neural networks differ from peer-to-peer networks sociotechnically. Maximum data intensity, large language models, tokenized media objects, modification of algorithms by data, operational statistics, plus the variation of existing patterns in the case of AI – data immutability, encryption, token economies and exact processing of algorithmic instructions in the case of blockchain. Together, blockchain and neoconnectionist AI are about to form what I call a seventh historical layer within my work on of network cultures. Even within our current situation we cannot draw close the net in which we stand (Walter Benjamin). Blockchain and AI are infrastructured by a deep time of sociotechnical networks, computing|computation, and their media materialities.

Yet currently blockchain and AI not only compete for parallel distributed processing power in data centres. They both share energy-intensive, extractive strategies that drive the booms and busts of too-late capitalism (Anna Kornbluh). While their network imaginaries are still being contested, naturalization and habitualisation happen at an ever-increasing pace. Sometimes, blockchain is now promoted as a slowing-down counter-infrastructure to AI's accelerationist, generative media and its models. The talk is going to take a close look at controversial cases like Worldcoin, which is supposed to afford for a biometrical 鈥減roof-of-human鈥� that attaches a digital identity to online content. While the cultural logics of blockchain and AI might seem to differ almost entirely on the infrastructural level, they are currently serving as a match made in hell when it comes to their political and economic appropriation. So how can we revitalize network cultures to inhabit a liveable seventh layer of network history?

Co-hosted with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM)

How might we better understand, explore and investigate the diverse range of images we encounter in the humanities?

A two day in-person workshop convened by the Centre for Digital Inquiry. Led by , Digital Curator, British Library.

Please read more and register here.