Fantastic Futures Canberra 2024 Conference - CfP extended and keynotes announced
Alexis Tindall
Hi all,
Apologies for any cross-postings.
You may be interested in the upcoming Fantastic Futures 2024 Conference, to be held in Canberra from 15 to 18 October 2024. This is the fifth Fantastic Futures conference, with previous events in Vancouver, Paris, Stanford and Norway.
The conference theme is ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) Sector’, at it will bring together a range of international organisations concerned with AI and Machine Learning technology.
Conference organisers have extended the call for papers to 14 May, with details and a submission form to be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/news/fantastic-futures-canberra-2024-conference-onsite-and-online
And this week they’ve announced keynote speakers and opened registrations.
The acclaimed keynote speakers will focus on AI/ML application to cultural, research and heritage collections, and feature a strong presence from Australian and New Zealand sector leaders to highlight the innovation and expertise emerging in the region.
- Associate Professor Kirsten Thorpe (Worimi, Port Stephens), is a Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research at the University of Technology, Sydney. She leads the Indigenous Archives and Data Stewardship Hub, which advocates for Indigenous rights in archives and data, and drives research to support culturally appropriate management of Indigenous knowledges.
- Associate Professor Sydney Shep is a Reader in Book History and The Printer, Wai-te-ata Press: Te Whare Tā O Waiteata, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She brings historic and contemporary media into creative conversation though explorations into the digital handmade, generative AI, and augmented reality experiences.
- Peter-Lucas Jones (Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Takoto, Ngāti Kahu) is the Chief Executive Officer of Te Hiku Media, a communications hub at the forefront of an initiative to revitalise te reo Māori using AI technology.
- Kathy Reid, Australian National University PhD candidate, works at the intersection of open source, emerging technologies, and technical communities, most recently working as a voice open-source specialist for Mozilla. Her research centres on voice data and ways to prevent and respond to bias in machine learning systems that use voice and speech, such as speech recognition.
- Eryk Salvaggio is an artist, writer, and researcher examining the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence. He serves as the Emerging Technologies Research Advisor for the Siegel Family Endowment and was a 2024 Flickr Foundation Fellow.
- Kartini Ludwig is the Director and Founder of Kopi Su, a digital design and innovation studio in Sydney whose projects empower artists to access and control new technology. Kartini is the driving force behind the AI music and performance series Sonic Mutations and has worked on numerous other projects at the intersection of arts, culture and technology.
See links for further information, and please circulate this to anyone you think might be interested.
Warm regards,
Alexis
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Hi everyone,
Several parties have requested more time to submit proposals to the Fantastic Futures Canberra 2024 conference (AI4LAM). We have extended the deadline by two weeks to Tuesday 14 May 2024 and the updated timeline is up on the AI4LAM website.
Good wishes, Ingrid Mason
Announcements
§ Call for Proposals open
§ Registration open
§ Keynotes announcement: 3 May 2024
§ Call for proposals closes: extended to 14 May 2024
§ Proposals reviewed by the program committee: extended to 3 June 2024
§ Proposal acceptances: extended to 14 June 2024
§ Conference countdown 54321…
§ Registration closes: 30 September 2024
§ You are in Canberra or are joining us online later in the week! 15 October 2024
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 18:10, Ingrid Mason <ingrid....@gmail.com> wrote:
A gentle reminder to get your proposals in for the Fantastic Futures Canberra 2024 conference.
The call closes 30 April 2024 - this coming Tuesday.
Good wishes, Ingrid Mason
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 at 11:55, Ingrid Mason <ingrid....@gmail.com> wrote:
** apologies for cross-posting **
Hello everyone,
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and the program committee invite members of the AI4LAM (Artificial Intelligence, for Libraries, Archives, Museums) community, practitioners in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sector and Digital Humanities, Arts & Social Science, Data, Information and Computer Science researchers in Higher Education to submit proposals for presentations and workshops.
Submissions are invited from colleagues around the world representing a range of organisations, collections, interest and experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies applied to or developed with cultural, research and heritage collections.
Get started thinking about your papers and workshops.
We look forward to seeing you in Canberra, Australia in October!
Overall Theme
Artificial intelligence in the future of work in the GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
Lenses given priority for conference submissions are those that cover aspects of history, language and culture relating to place, especially in the Australasian context, and diverse themes and topics are provided to reflect the ways AI & ML are being explored.
Please submit proposals targeted at the intersection of theory and practice in the application of AI technologies in the context of cultural, research and heritage collections.
Timeline
- Call for proposals opens: 10 March 2024
- Keynotes announcement: 31 March 2024
- Call for proposals closes: 30 April 2024
- Proposals reviewed by the program committee: 20 May 2024
- Proposal acceptances: 31 May 2024
Contact Information
- Join the NFSA FF24 mailing list for regular updates.
- Drop a note into the #ff2024 event channel in the AI4LAM Slack.
- Send detailed inquiries to ff24 [at] nfsa.gov.au.
- Organisers: Ingrid Mason, Basil Dewhurst, Ashlinn Harty, NFSA.
- Convenor: Dr Keir Winesmith, NFSA.
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