Critical Data Futures Colloquium
Keynote Panel: BAMPFA, 12:30 to 2:00 PM
Sessions: AAP Building, 2:30-3:30 and 4:00-5:00 PM
Register for the free event & colloquium at this registration link. 

Presented by Human Technology Futures Group and the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley. 

The unknown potentials of the metaverse are both exciting and terrifying. Technologists and the media have been exploring the implications of a potential shift to user-centered 3D experiences, which could eclipse our familiar two-dimensional ways of interfacing with our screens. Here, urgent questions emerge about who owns the data of our virtual bodies, our movements and online traces, and our virtual “homes.” At the same time, new modes of expression and data manifestation through online characters, animations, digital art, simulations, and machine learning promise to reveal new modes of cultural production and ways of living together. 

Join our panel of media innovation experts including Edgar Fabian Frias, Emma Fraser, Don Hanson, Wade Wallerstein and Richmond Wong to discuss the challenges and opportunities awaiting our curious explorations in this emerging space of critical data futures. 

After the panel discussion, join the colloquium sessions to discuss specific aspects of media production, critical analysis and data stewardship.