The following is the second recording from the Music and Virtual Worlds Workshop held on the 20th of June, 2024 – where invited guest, Emeritus Professor Karamjit Gill, co-founder and editor of the journal AI & Society reflected on his personal academic habitus; How he felt called to take action and respond to the question: How do you bring people together to help others, to make change and create social value through technology, without money, without power, without fame, and when the human-technological-systems to do this are yet to be invented?

As a side note:

This segment of the workshop was originally intended as a dialog between Professors Karamjit Gill and Liam Bannon, talking about the role of technology in shaping human society and implications for computer mediated immersive experiences.

Unfortunately, due to illness Liam was unable to attend on the day, but we did visit him later in the afternoon at University Hospital Limerick. As it happened, Liam was in great form and while he wasn’t able to check-out from the hospital on the day, he was able to finally meet Karamjit and Satinder on a warm summer’s evening. In fact it was their first face-to-face meeting even though they had known one another for many years and been involved in writing and reviewing for the journal from afar.

So this is something by way of explanation for this episode’s cover art; a photo of Liam, Satinder, and Karamjit at UHL. And the lower picture is a snapshot from the panel discussion in the Irish Chamber Orchestra Building, University of Limerick.

Credit: Allen Higgins, 20th June 2024.

Notes, mentions, and further reading:

Mike Cooley (Wikipedia link) – Author of Architect or Bee? (1980).

The Journal AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication (link). Published by Springer. Established in 1987. Co-founded by Professors Michael Cooley and Karamjit Gill. Founding advisory board members: Joseph Weizenbaum, Hubert Dreyfus, Daniel Dennett, Maggie Boden, Terry Winograd, David F. Noble, Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky and others (see article at link).

XTREME – “Mixed Reality Environment for Immersive Experience of Art and Culture” (link)

The INSYTE-Cooley Research Lab (I-CRL link)

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

Source: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoni

Licensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0

Cover Art

Title: Vignettes from Limerick

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: LiamKaramjitSatinder_Cover_Art.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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The following is a recording from the Music and Virtual Worlds Workshop held on the 20th of June, 2024 - a working event of the XTREME project, a research projected funded by the European Union.

The workshop was a preliminary activity of the XTREME project; which stands for

“’miXed Reality Environment for IMmersive Experience’ of Art and Culture”.

The goal of the project being to research new applications at the intersection between augmention technology and human kinaesthetic being. For example, by experimenting with embodied musical-artistic performance uniting AR/VR and AI, for therapeutic and other forms of human involvement.

The panel included:

Martin Cunneen, from the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick and local PI for XTREME.

Amanda Clifford, Physiotherapist, from the School of Allied Health, University of Limerick

Satinder Gill, from the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Music and Science

Emeritus Professor Karamjit Gill from University of Brighton and Editor of the journal AI & Society

Cathriona Murphy,

Gerry Keenan,

And Simon Thompson from the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

And Andrew Kaung a researcher on the XTREME project.

The goal for the workshop was to explain the scope of XTREME and its inspiration in ideas surrounding the blend of music, dance, physical and virtual embodiment. The local partners gathered to meet and introduce themselves, their motivations and research interests.

Professors Karamjit Gill and Liam Bannon had planned to prompt a dialogue centred on the role of technology shaping human society and implications for computer mediated immersive experiences. Unfortunately, due to illness Liam was unable to attend on the day and so Karamjit offered a personal reflection on his own academic habilitation and storied career, which we present in the second episode/recording of this event.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

XTREME – “Mixed Reality Environment for Immersive Experience of Art and Culture” is an EU Horizon 2020 project that started in January 2024 and will finish in December 2026. XTREME will explore and provide a mixed reality (MR) solution to experience different forms of art. The project is in close collaboration with 14 different partners who together will explore different alternatives to the traditional way of accessing music and art experiences. https://xtremeitu.dk/about-xtreme

Speakers: Martin Cunneen, Amanda Clifford, Satinder Gill, Karamjit Gill, Cathriona Murphy,Gerry Keenan, Simon Thompson and Andrew Kaung

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

Source: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoni

Licensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0

Cover Art

Title: Complex collage incorporating the XTREME logo image

Artist: Allen Higgins and XTREME project

Source: XTREME_Cover_Art.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Podcast License

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The STS Ireland unconference of 25 June 2024.

Welcome by Kalpana Shankar

Professor Cassidy R. Sugimoto, chair of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor Rob Kitchin from the Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University.

(the unconference was held at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), St Stephen’s Green South, Dublin.)

Why an unconference? An unconference is an event where the attendees help set the agenda and content. Rather than papers and panels, we want to use this opportunity to foster networking and discussion.

The goal of this inaugural event was to acknowledge the specificities but also international connections/reach of STS (and the general implications of scientific research and policy here in Ireland) and bring researchers together for networking from different institutional and disciplinary homes. The unconference format included panel talks and small-group discussions to explore various facets of the socio-cultural study of technology, science, and medicine.

Schedule:

9:45 Registration

10:30-10:40 Overview/welcome

10:45-11:40 Keynotes

11:50-12:40 Panel discussion - Cassidy, Rob, Kalpana (Moderator - Christo)

12:50-1:50 Lunch

1:50-2:45 Breakout 1 (1:50 - 2:30, then return and discuss)

2:45-3:40 Breakout 2 (2:45 - 3:40)

3:45-4:30 Debrief and next steps

4:30-4:45 Closing

Notes, further reading:

Organised by Kalpana (kalpana.shankar@ucd.ie); Christo (christo.jacob@ucdconnect.ie)

The Website and registration link: https://stscommunityireland.wordpress.com/

Supported by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Network Fund and the University College Dublin Centre for Digital Policy.

Museum of Literature Ireland - https://moli.ie

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: CrazyMix

Artist: Sandbox Korg Ableton

Source: CrazyMix.aif

License: : CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Cover Art

Title: Inspired by Wordpress Defaults

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: CITO-podcast-STS.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Podcast License

Design Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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