Title : AI, Art & Society

Date : 2026년 11월 4일(수) 14:00~15:00

Speaker : Dr. Satinder P. Gill (University of Cambridge)

Speaker Bio : Managing Editor, AI & Society Convenor, Rhythm as Knowledge Research Network Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge

Title : Exploring Art, Science, and Emotional AI

Date : 2026년 4월 15일(수) 14:00~15:30

Speaker : Victoria Vesna(UCLA, Department of Design Media Arts))

Speaker Bio : Professor, UCLA Department of Design Media Arts Director, UCLA Art | Sci Center North American Editor, AI & Society Jury Member, Hybrid and Interactive Arts, Ars Electronica

Title : Form, Function + Fantasy: The role of humanness in artificial interactions

Date : October 7, 2026 (Wed) 12:00 - 13:30

Speaker : Nathan Caruana (Flinders University)

Speaker Bio : Dr Nathan (Nate) Caruana is an Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology at Flinders University and a cognitive neuroscientist by training. He is the founding Director of HumAIN and the Flinders Autism Research Initiative, and leads the HAVIC Lab. His research examines social interaction and how people understand and relate to both humans and artificial agents such as robots and AI. He also leads projects using technology to support employment and wellbeing outcomes for autistic people.

Title : Reading Culture through Data Science

Date : May 13, 2026 (Wed) 09:00 - 10:30

Speaker : Yong-Yeol Ahn (University of Virginia)

Speaker Bio : Yong-Yeol Ahn is a world-renowned network and data scientist and the Quantitative Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia's School of Data Science. His research investigates how complex system architectures shape human behavior, cognition, and scientific progress by integrating network analysis, machine learning, and NLP. A co-author of Working with Network Data and a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow, he previously held positions at Indiana University and MIT after earning his Ph.D. from KAIST.

Title : Predictions Without Futures / a prehistory of utopia

Date : March 26, 2026 (Thu) 11:00 - 12:30

Speaker : Sun-ha Hong (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Speaker Bio : Sun-ha Hong is Associate Professor at UNC–Chapel Hill (Communication / Data Science and Society). Drawing on critical theory and STS, he analyzes the politics of power in algorithmic prediction, smart machines, and Silicon Valley technoculture. He is the author of the award-winning Technologies of Speculation(2020) and the forthcoming Predictions Without Futures. His work has appeared in Big Data & Society and History & Theory. Before UNC, he was a faculty member at Simon Fraser University and a postdoctoral scholar at MIT.