News & Events
Leviathan鈥檚 Ear: Machine-Listening & Platformisation
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.
The Digital Condition: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Humans, Societies and Machines
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.
Communities and Algorithms: Epistemological Questions for a Critical Network Science
The CDI is delighted to host Dominik Schindler and Matthew Fuller, who will share their current research, Communities and Algorithms: Epistemological Questions for a Critical Network Science, with the CDI community at Warwick. The talk is facilitated by British Academy Posdoctoral Fellow Patrick Brian Smith.
Details: 23rd May, 2pm, room FAB2.43 (in-person event), (click item heading for extended outline)
Register: please email patrick.smith.1@warwick.ac.uk to register your interest to attend.
