E-Relevance of Education and Culture in the Age of AI
The flash session will ask how we can best put education, culture and arts to work in order to generate the necessary competences, social intelligence and critical thinking that people will need to accompany new life practices in an environment marked by increasing human-machine interactions.
What roles can education and social learning play at a time when robots can take over the work previously done by humans and even teach each other? How can digital citizenship education address the issues that will arise as a result? What are the roles of culture, arts and creativity in building bridges between people and technology and, in turn, empowering people to cross these bridges with integrity and self-confidence?
Case-based presentations from eminent protagonists will offer concrete suggestions for a two-way collaboration between education & culture and AI science & development.
Vuk Ćosić
Pioneer of internet art
Vuk Ćosić, internet veteran and internationally acclaimed classic of internet art. Co-founder of the Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, of mailing list Nettime, and of the consultancy Case Sensitive.
One of pioneers of internet art, frequently exhibits (Whitechappel, London; Venice Bienial; Habana Bienial; Manifesta, Zurich; ICA, London; Beaubourg, Paris; Reina Sofia, Madrid; Garage, Moscow; ICC, Tokio; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Digital Artlab, Tel Aviv; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Ars Electronica, Linz; Castello Rivoli, Torino; Walker, Minneapolis; Postmasters, NYC; Friedricanum, Kassel; Neue Galerie, Graz; IAS, Seoul; Baltic, Newcastle; Moca, Oslo; Barbican, London, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich...) and lectures (Museums: Beaubourg, Paris; Guggenheim, Venice; CCA, Glasgow;Thing, NYC; LAMoCA, LA; Festivals – Hong Kong, London, Liverpool, Dessau, Montreal, Banff, Madrid, Gorizia, Copenhagen, Barcelona...; Art schools and Universities- Stockholm, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Troy, Dundee, Liverpool, Venice, Linz, Barcelona,...).
Subject of numerous BA, MA and PHD theses (universities of Rome, Sao Paolo, Leeds, Manchester, Bruxelles, Trieste…), media coverage (NY Times, Liberation, La Repubblica, Guardian, Financial Times, Cahiers du Cinema, Artforum, Newsweek, Wired, Haaretz, ORF, CNN, BBC...) as well as key publications on new media (MIT press, Thames & Hudson, Tate, Taschen, Baltic...).
Throughout the explosive and fruitful career as creative director, UX lead and CEO Vuk was the leader of project teams for key projects in Slovenian and regional internet space.
As a consultant in digital strategy he is a public intellectual, frequently lectures, publishes articles, organizes conferences and leads award juries.
Elizabeth Milovidov
Law Professor, Children's Rights Advocate, e-Enfance
Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov is an Independent Expert on Digital Parenting for the Council of Europe. She is a lawyer from California, a law professor in Paris and an eSafety Consultant in Europe – and a mom to two tech-savvy little kids.
Elizabeth is an Independent Expert on Digital Parenting and contributes to the Expert Working Group on Digital Citizenship Education for the Council of Europe. She is an advisor on European cooperation and International Projects for e-enfance, a French association providing support to parents and children in the digital age.
Her core work involves researching solutions for parenting in the digital age and she is the founder of DigitalParentingCoach.com, a website and community with resources for parents. And she is currently working on a guide to support parents in the 4th Industrial Revolution as families are being introduced to remarkable innovations like robots, VR, artificial intelligence and IoT.