Abstract

TBA

Short Bio

Joseph Dumit is an American anthropologist of passions and performance, brains and games, AI and computers, contact improvisation and slownesses, drugs and facts. He is Chair of Performance Studies, and Professor of Science & Technology Studies, and Anthropology at University of California Davis; and Professor in Interdisciplinary Data Collaborations at Aarhus University. His books include Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans & Biomedical America and Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health. Recently, he has turned to large language models (LLMs), experimenting with them as collaborators in creativity, perspective-taking and critical reflection rather than simply tools for answers. He likes lichen and speculation.

What is an AIAS Seminar?

The AIAS Seminar Series is a session of seminars held by the AIAS fellows, AIAS Visiting or Tandem Fellows or by other speakers proposed by the fellows. In each seminar, a fellow will present and discuss her/his current research and work-in-progress to an interdisciplinary audience for 30 minutes, closing off with 30 minutes for questions, comments and discussion.

All seminars are in-person and held in English. To attend online, please contact Cecilie Horshauge at cecilie@aias.au.dk by 9:00am on the day of the seminar as the latest to request a link.