Hybrid Futures Symposium: Re-Imagining Human-Machine Encounters

The Hybrid Futures Symposium brings together thinkers, researchers and creative practitioners to illuminate the impact of digital technologies on the human and the nonhuman.

What does it mean to be human in a world increasingly populated by and designed for machines? What kind of futures we imagine in our encounter with the non-humanity of technology? Are machines destined to rule the world beyond our control and capacity? Or can the human-machine encounter be re-imagined as collaboration rather than antagonism? As coevolution rather than hierarchy?

The Hybrid Futures Symposium will offer ideas on how to build creative and critical responses to the challenges technologies present today, and the kind of questions we should ask to craft future sustaining human-machine encounters. The symposium brings together thinkers, researchers and creative practitioners to illuminate the impact of digital technologies on the human and the nonhuman.

Speakers include:

Hybrid Futures: a series of critical talks with leading-edge practitioners and thinker around the interaction between humans and machines, curated and led by Dr Betti Marenko.

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