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IPEC Member Libby Meyer Awarded NEA Grant

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The National Endowment for the Arts has approved Libby Meyer (VPA) for a grant in the amount of $20,000.

This grant will support a multidisciplinary arts series at the Rozsa Center. In total, the NEA will award 1,135 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling more than $37 million as part of its second round of fiscal year 2024 grants.

Meyer’s work supports IPEC, the Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture. She serves as an executive committee member of the institute. Her recent podcast episode with IPEC Presents can be streamed on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. 

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Read Our April Member Newsletter

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The Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture has published our latest newsletter, available to the campus community here. IPEC has several collaborative, interdisciplinary funding applications underway that we are proud to report on. Check out our affiliates upcoming events, and see our April 12 deadline for faculty and graduate student seed funding.

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Now Streaming: IPEC Presents Dr. Mark Rouleau

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In this episode of IPEC Presents, we examine our new season’s theme of ethics from a different perspective. Dr. Mark Rouleau brings with him insights from an IPEC-sponsored trip to Brazil. Mark participated in the Summer School on AI technologies for trust, interoperability, autonomy, and resilience in Industry 4.0. The summer school was a one-week hands on training hosted at the University of São Paulo focused on using automation techniques in Multi Agent System (MAS) environments to solve practical industrial problems. Topics covered through this hackathon style training included the following: Web of Things, Knowledge Graphs, Multi Agent Systems, and Responsible and Trustworthy AI.

Check out the podcast on Spotify!

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This Week’s IPEC Programming

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Dr. Jason Archer’s Guest Appearance on IPEC’s podcast streams tomorrow, November 7! In our third episode, host Kendall Belopavlovich and Jason discuss his research in human machine communication, haptics, and sensory studies. Check out our podcast page for more.

On Thursday, the Graduate Student Government will be facilitating a 3 Minute Thesis competition. The finals will be held from 6-8:00pm, November 9, at the Great Lakes Research Center.

Finally, Friday is set to see IPEC members Charles Wallace and Susanna Peters facilitate a Computer Science Colloquium from 3-4:00pm in Rekhi 214. This event is also available as a webinar. See the event page for more details!

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Featured Member: Jason Archer

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Jason Archer

Featured Member

This month, we’re featuring the work of one of the institute’s executive committee members, Dr. Jason Archer.

Jason is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Technologies, Director of Communication, Culture, and Media, and Human Machine Culture Research Area Lead for IPEC.

According to Jason, “I situate my research at the nexus of communication, media studies, science and technology studies (STS), and sensory studies, with emphasis on human-machine communication and haptics. I am currently working on projects related to human machine culture: robotic touch and sociality, surgical robotics and sociotechnical constructions of disability, and haptic holograms.”

Events

During this year’s 41 North Film Festival, Jason will be hosting a panel with Steven Walton and Charles Wallace after the screening of the film Time Bomb Y2K on November 2, 7:00 pm.

We’re excited to delve into Jason’s research in this month’s episode of the IPEC Presents Podcast, streaming on Spotify and Apple Podcasts November 7, at 6:00 am.

Human Machine Culture Research Area

The Human Machine Culture research area seeks diverse researchers interested in examining cultural debates about communicative machines (social robots, virtual agents, chatbots, and other AI entities), critiquing the culture of communicative machine development, investigating social practices arising from the integration of these machines into everyday life, and exploring the potential for novel artistic and expressive forms emerging through human machine configurations.  

The research area aims to establish connections between researchers of diverse disciplines, in areas of humanities, arts, sciences, and engineering to address the complexity and consequences of Human Machine Culture. 

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