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Media Evolution is a membership organization that help media industries to innovate and grow.

The videos in this podcast are generated at our annual conference The Conference and lectures we arrange throughout the year.

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Johanna Koljonen – Closing Remarks

September 01, 2023 17:16 - 14 minutes - 63.2 MB Video

Johanna Koljonen closes 2023's The Conference with a recap how we as participators have tried to move away from oppositional binaries but  also reflects that how these binaries also work as an aid to understand the world. Not only that, we are also able to shift and remix the the meanings of these opposites. Remembering a recent conversation at The Conference where she got to question "what is professionalism?" she suggests that maybe we, when we allows us to be human, discovers a lot useful...

Nick Hasty – Inferring Creativity

September 01, 2023 17:16 - 45 minutes - 123 MB Video

Examining the creativity of generative artificial intelligence tools brings up interesting parallels with human cognition. Just as AI systems predict and fill gaps, our brains do so too, drawing from a wide range of learned behaviours, experiences and beliefs. Both entities heavily rely on their training data: AI on diverse datasets, humans on factors like personal histories, culture and upbringing. Of course, creativity is not only a generative optimisation tool developed by our homo-sapi...

BITOI – Ingen fara

September 01, 2023 17:15 - 7 minutes - 19.4 MB Video

BITOI stands for Bass is the original instrument. BITOI are exploring the boundaries of the voice and the electric bass. The band is made up of one electric bass player and three vocalists from Denmark and Sweden (Cassius Lambert, Alexandra Shabo, Lise Kroner, Anja Tietze Lahrmann). They are working with an extended electric bass neck to allow quartertones and the lyrics of tracks are based on phonetic pronunciations of bird sounds, leading to a unique sound that transcends borders. Some tra...

Q&A – Tending To Transformation

September 01, 2023 17:15 - 13 minutes - 76.7 MB Video

Q&A from the sessions Tending To Transformation – For Creative Leaders Who Stay With The Trouble with Pernilla Glaser (Author, Educator), Lydia Slaby (Community Leader and Author) and Holley M. Kholi-Murchison (Oratory Glory)

Holley M. Kholi-Murchison – Towards Satiety: Charting New Paths for the Work...

September 01, 2023 17:15 - 16 minutes - 68.6 MB Video

“Are you willing to dig deep and choose what your heart wants in the face of fear?” How can we begin to view the work that we do as a journey towards self-actualisation? Holley began in their own journey of resignation from a toxic workplace, to found Oratory Glory, and has continued to work in spreading stories and helping people find meaning in their life and work. Many people find that they don’t fit into the boxes that those around them expect them to fit in, causing them to shrink the...

Lydia Slaby – Soft Leadership Learned the Hard Way

September 01, 2023 17:14 - 17 minutes - 58.2 MB Video

“Take time to pay attention. Not everything can be solved in 15 minutes, let it take the time it takes” “Stay in the hard and uncomfortable conversations” Lydia Slaby learned the hard way that to live a life that is worthwhile, you need to find space for the heart and the brain. At the end of a long-list of achievements, and on a trajectory towards immense corporate success, Lydia suffered a cancer diagnosis that shifted her understanding of achievement. Moving from the corporate lawyer w...

Pernilla Glaser – Heart Matters

September 01, 2023 17:14 - 16 minutes - 79.1 MB Video

“We all start out as artists”, Pernilla Glaser explains. After all, most of us know how the snow eaten from a mitten tastes. We started out as open for experimentation, doing weird things, feeling and exploring the world and the relationships around us. Pernilla invites us to find ways back into this state, and to put more attention to our heart and not just our brain. The best way of hosting a playdate between the heart and brain is by actually inviting more play into our lives and remindi...

Q&A – Creative Assemblages

September 01, 2023 17:14 - 14 minutes - 40 MB Video

Q&A from the session Creative Assemblages – Emerging Alliances to Augment Human Creativity with Kristoffer Ørum (Artist) and Kader Bagli (RISE | Visual Effects Studio) 

Kristoffer Ørum – Even Images That You Know To Be False Affect You

September 01, 2023 17:13 - 18 minutes - 50.6 MB Video

Kristoffer Ørum finds satisfaction in taking a particular technology that is meant for something else and misusing it. In his current unfinished Instagram project that unfolds over time, the artist uses AI to create a version of history. The generated pictures combine 90s hip-hop culture, the Danish worker movement, fishermen's culture, and the health care system. But the more you look at it, the more you notice its imperfections. That is Kristoffer’s way of imagining and reimagining the pa...

Kader Bagli – Bringing Nuanced Futures to Life

September 01, 2023 17:13 - 17 minutes - 49.2 MB Video

“We all deserve to be seen in visual languages. We already have the tool, now it’s about taking action” Could merging VFX and AI create a fully represented world? Kader Bagli certainly thinks so. Working at the intersection of creativity, imagination and technology, she is exposed to a lack of diversity on a daily basis. Our current visual storytelling landscape doesn’t celebrate cultural diversity across all layers of society – we are good at marginalising groups instead of normalizing th...

Q&A – Humanity, (AI)mplified

September 01, 2023 17:11 - 6 minutes - 21.9 MB Video

Q&A from the session Humanity, (AI)mplified – The AI Tools We Use to Be More Human with Laura Herman (Oxford Internet Institute,) Ovetta Sampson (Google) and Charlotte Högberg (Lund University) 

Charlotte Högberg - The Doctor is In: Assistive Intelligence in Healthcare

September 01, 2023 17:11 - 13 minutes - 35.4 MB Video

How can AI be used for the common good or more precisely in healthcare? Charlotte’s work explores what futures are possible and desirable but also what we are at risk of losing. AI's role in healthcare can have harmful effects but also huge potential benefits. She emphasises the need to raise vital questions and consider consequences. Awareness of nuances, understanding risks and avoiding unethical technology is key because this touches upon high stake decisions (literally about life and de...

Ovetta Sampson - Design Principles for a Pluralist Automated Future

September 01, 2023 17:11 - 19 minutes - 75 MB Video

"Data is the love language of machine learning, but we must remember that it is not true." We all create data. And all data is created by people. Ovetta Sampson wants us to remember this, both in order to centre humanity but also to clarify the vulnerabilities of data. We are biased, so the data we create is infused with biases as well. Whether it is by the sin of omission or the use of inequitable variables, traumatised datasets manifest in real world situations such as applying for a ban...

Laura Herman - The Human Creative Director: Remixing, Seeing, Curating

September 01, 2023 17:10 - 15 minutes - 40 MB Video

“What would you make if you did not have to generate it?” Global platforms like Instagram and Tik Tok enable creatives to show their work to wider audiences. However, these platforms also operate using algorithms that determine which content appears in users' feeds and what remains unseen.  This dynamic has significant implications: firstly, algorithms replace the work that elite institutions such as museums and art galleries traditionally have done. We tend to explore what grabs our atte...

Q&A – Doing Equity

September 01, 2023 17:10 - 19 minutes - 113 MB Video

Q&A from the session Doing Equity – Tools for Making Diversity, Equity and Inclusion more...Inclusive with Peter Bilak (Typotheque), Caroline Bollen (TU Delft) and Dr. Nighat Arif (BBC, NHS)

Dr. Nighat Arif - Treating Women Where They Are

September 01, 2023 17:09 - 13 minutes - 61.6 MB Video

“What happens when you don’t have the words to describe the symptoms?” In the last installment of the ‘Doing Equity’ session, Dr. Nighat Arif, the resident doctor of BBC and ITV presents an uplifting talk that reiterates the importance of raising awareness and in normalizing discussions of female health within the Black and Asian communities in the UK. From menstruation to menopause as well as breast cancer – she states that there are still a lot of stigmas and shame attached to talking abo...

Caroline Bollen – Design With and For Empathy

September 01, 2023 17:09 - 12 minutes - 56.6 MB Video

“Empathy is the balance between identification and differentiation”  In this session ‘Doing Equity’, we dive into the aspects and practices that can be adopted in order to materialize equity in different settings. An interdisciplinary researcher at Delft University of Technology, Caroline Bollen whose research focus revolves around how to best understand empathy in a society where communication is more and more mediated by technologies. Through dissecting what empathy connotes in multiple ...

Peter Bilak - Giving Voice to People

September 01, 2023 17:08 - 13 minutes - 51 MB Video

“I wish there were governments who paid for this” Peter Bil'ak is a well-known name within the narrow field of typography and type design. Having worked for many years digiitising handwritten scripts from South Asian regions, he shares some of the implications of digitally missing and incomplete alphabets. While the global population is growing very quickly, the number of spoken languages is simultaneously shrinking. As education and other systems become standardised, languages that aren’t...

Q&A - Setting Stories Free

September 01, 2023 17:08 - 16 minutes - 92.8 MB Video

Q&A from the session Setting Stories Free – How We Tell The Tales That Move Us with Priyanka Borpujari (Award-winning journalist), Bjarke Calvin, Sophia Jörgensen, Iben Völund (Duckling), Building a legacy for 21st-century journalists Marie Kilg (Deutsche Welle).

Bjarke Calvin, Sophia Jörgensen, Iben Völund – Building a Legacy for...

September 01, 2023 17:07 - 17 minutes - 75.7 MB Video

“Our world is connected by stories” says Bjarke Calvin. For him stories are not just a way to share information but a way of nurturing human connection. So what to do with the fact that news stories we interact with are more and more defined by social media? Tech-giants that dominate the media space, do not foster storytelling as their primary goal is generating advertisements. .  To free stories from the linear, centralised format that we are currently trapped in, we need to hack the curr...

Marie Kilg - Collaborating with More-Than-Human Columnists

September 01, 2023 17:07 - 14 minutes - 60.6 MB Video

Anic is not like any other writer. Anic is the first non-human columnist and while Anic is not a human they still have parents. “We saw ourselves comfortable in the role of parents, as we wanted to grant Anic as much independence as possible but we still had to create certain rules that had to be maintained.” Marie Kilg is one these parents and her collaborators created Anic as a sort of an investigation looking at what it would mean if an AI writes articles, in her talk she shared their le...

Priyanka Borpujari - Empowering Complex Narratives

September 01, 2023 17:07 - 18 minutes - 78.6 MB Video

“In every conflict the first thing to go is truth, and the first killed victim is the messenger.” “Editors are not interested in mundane stories because we have stopped listening entirely” Who decides which stories get to be told? Who defines what an important story actually is? Priyanka Borjupari shares stories of her experiences as a journalist in all parts of the world, and her views on how storytelling affects the way that we view what’s important and what is not.  Many aspects of ou...

Q&A – Memory in The Machine

September 01, 2023 17:06 - 18 minutes - 52.2 MB Video

Q&A from the session Memory in The Machine – The Tools We Use to Archive Us with Carl Öhman (Uppsala University) and Neef Rehman (Creative technologist, Isometric) 

Neef Rehman - Machine Forgetting: Memory as Instruction & the Fallacy of Time

September 01, 2023 17:06 - 16 minutes - 45.4 MB Video

“The anthropomorphisation of AI is not the way to go. It is more interesting to look at how that impacts our interaction and perception of time.” What does time look like for machines? Do machines understand time the way humans perceive it? And what happens when we rely on machines that have their own view of the world and on us? Neef Rehman discusses how the concept of time is unique to us and shaped by the people around us. But in an era of increasing interdependence, time as we know it —...

Carl Öhman – The Ethics of Our Digital Afterlives

September 01, 2023 17:05 - 16 minutes - 42.8 MB Video

“The data of the dead is more than individual user history, it is the heritage of the 21st century.” By the end of this century, Facebook will host 5 billion profiles of deceased people - and therefore have access to data of more people who are dead than alive. That poses an urgent question: What do we do with the digital dead? Since the agricultural revolution and the settlement of humans, the dead have been around us. They are a portal to our past, and we continue to feel connected to t...

Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

September 01, 2023 17:05 - 47 minutes - 142 MB Video

“Injustice it’s not rooted in computing. It’s been happening for hundreds of years and it’s still being imposed through centuries in violence through colonialism.” “Before seeking new design solutions, we look for what is already working at the community level”. This is one of the 10 principles for design justice that Costanza-Chock presents in her keynote, which is essential listening for middle-class gender-normative designers. We might be blind to the burdens imparted on less privileged...

BITOI – Fly, fly + Tubarao

September 01, 2023 17:04 - 8 minutes - 20.3 MB Video

BITOI stands for Bass is the original instrument. BITOI are exploring the boundaries of the voice and the electric bass. The band is made up of one electric bass player and three vocalists from Denmark and Sweden (Cassius Lambert, Alexandra Shabo, Lise Kroner, Anja Tietze Lahrmann). They are working with an extended electric bass neck to allow quartertones and the lyrics of tracks are based on phonetic pronunciations of bird sounds, leading to a unique sound that transcends borders. Some tra...

Q&A – Michael Slaby

September 01, 2023 16:40 - 8 minutes - 29 MB Video

Q&A from the keynote session with Michael Slaby (Avens, Harmony Labs)

Johanna Koljonen – Opening Remarks

September 01, 2023 10:26 - 10 minutes - 45.7 MB Video

Returning moderator extraordinaire, Johanna Koljonen, opens The Conference 2023 and extends a warm welcome to the participants. She begins with a reflection on the personal financial situation that many of us have faced due to last year's economic turmoil. She states, "Working in this economy, we're facing a lot of pressure that we previously have not experienced," and connects environmental threats, financial anxiety, and the unease of social securities, all leading us to a state of prolon...

Q&A - Enacting Care

September 01, 2023 09:33 - 11 minutes - 60.5 MB Video

Q&A from the session Enacting Care – Putting Sustainability Into Practice with Deb Chachra (Olin College), Becky Lyon (Artist) and Ledama Masidza (Oceans Alive)

Monika Bielskyte - Protopia vs TESCREAL Visions of Tech Rapture

September 01, 2023 09:33 - 57 minutes - 205 MB Video

In what kind of future would you like to live? Blade Runner or Black Panther? For too long, our futures have been determined by immature science fiction imaginaries still stuck in the mid to late 20th century. Their utopian and dystopian binaries now provide fertile inspiration for police-state-aesthetic VC pitch decks and a cluster of ideologies known as TESCREAL: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism. Moreover, many of ...

Ledama Masidza – Weaving a Tapestry of Community for Ecological Care | The...

September 01, 2023 09:32 - 14 minutes - 62.1 MB Video

“We can only manage what we know.” Ubuntu is a concept that embraces the interconnectedness between all living things. No one is independent of the fact that our existence is directly dependent on the care between human and nonhuman communities. Ledama shared a story of hope, the case of Kuruwitu, a fishing community in Kenya that managed to heal itself from impacts of overfishing, coral bleaching and climate change. They did this through collaborative care, and harnessing the collective in...

Debbie Chachra – How Infrastructure Works

September 01, 2023 09:32 - 15 minutes - 66.1 MB Video

“Energy is general purpose freedom.”  “The earth is in a void, every atom has to come from some place, and go somewhere.“ Infrastructure might not be the first thing we think of when we hear the word “care”, but these  systems are manifestations of how we ensure quality of life as a society. Debbie Chachra refers to a quote of Amartya Sen - “We want wealth not because it's desirable on its own, but because it gives freedom to actually do what gives life value.” In her talk Debbie pointed ...

Becky Lyon – A Carrier Bag for Care-Full, and Co-flourishing Decision Making

September 01, 2023 09:31 - 17 minutes - 81.3 MB Video

“The master's house cannot be rebuilt with master's tools.“ “A physical shift with our bodies can shift how we think about a problem.” In her talk, Becky Lyon reminded us that we need to get back to our bodies, in order to create a world where we can thrive. In the dominant European American system the body has been estranged in favor of the rational, the evidence-based and the narrow. It caused us to step outside of ourselves, placing the notion within us that nature is outside of oursel...

Timothée Parrique – How to Blow Up an Economy

September 01, 2023 09:30 - 15 minutes - 42.2 MB Video

When everyone else calls for economic growth, innovation, and addition, Timothée Parrique demands demolition, sabotage, and removal. Our strive towards infinite growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. So far, no economy in the world has managed to grow its economy without overshooting the planetary boundaries. That’s why we need an economic strategy based on subtractions, not additions. And we need to rethink the economy's purpose, as growth tells us nothing about prosperity and well-...

Dr. Eduardo Castello Ferrer – Blockchain, Robotics and Economic Autonomy

September 01, 2023 09:30 - 14 minutes - 48 MB Video

Have you ever met a self-employed autonomous robot artist? Introducing Gaka-chu ("painter" in Japanese), a 6-axis robot arm that creates artistic paintings of Japanese characters. While robots have historically been treated as labour, Gaka-chu explores the concept of claiming agency and economic autonomy using blockchain-based smart contracts.  So, can robots actually maintain themselves? And if so, what implications do these economically autonomous robots have? Eduardo argues that instead...

Jenny Grettve – Feminist Economies

August 31, 2023 11:29 - 15 minutes - 48.1 MB Video

With severe catastrophes happening around us constantly - ecologically, economically, as well as socially - we tend to feel hopeless. But hopelessness is for the privileged. Our fear makes us hold on to things we already know instead of pursuing new things. We feel lost and want to think that crisis happens elsewhere - climate change does not affect me or my loved ones. But it actually does: When climate injustice happens somewhere, it happens everywhere. And as human beings, we have to act...

Cassie Robinson – Emerging Futures: Patterning the Third Horizon

August 31, 2023 11:28 - 45 minutes - 127 MB Video

Cassie Robinson Associate Director of Emerging Future at Joseph Rowntree Foundation “There’s always something growing and declining at the same time. I am ending and beginning at the same time.” From external events such as the pandemic to the hyper speed development of AI and tech to the increasingly urgent climate crisis discourses, how do we navigate ourselves in the midst of all these life-changing events? Are all changes – particularly the ones that liken to the ending of a cycle – i...

Liselott Stenfeldt – The Senses of Belonging

August 31, 2023 11:24 - 14 minutes - 47.5 MB Video

“People don’t change behaviour just because you tell them too. People need innovation in a public space to change” “Space and life goes together, and it's important to work with them together.” “Wise cities are making the invisible visible” and the ways we can make it visible means listening and looking at a variety of different data sources. Liselott Stenfeldt is the head of research and development at Gehl, a company which has been playing a leading role in understanding and supporting ...

Ling Tan – Why Participate?

August 31, 2023 11:23 - 12 minutes - 61.6 MB Video

“Work with people who disagree with you and with each other and still work together. This is where participation can begin.“ “Reflection to time and place is important to make people participate.” How do we get people to participate in creating the cities that they want? And once we do, how do we get them to act towards a common goal? These are some of the questions that Ling Tan works with on a daily basis and addressed in her talk.  In order to create collective action, meaning getting...

Arnaud Grignard – Tangible Interfaces For Urban Spaces

August 31, 2023 11:23 - 16 minutes - 74.1 MB Video

“The goal is to share knowledge through open-sourced tools, and for people to use them as much as possible” In his presentation, Arnaud Grignard shared some of the work he does with his team at the City Science group at the MIT Lab, specifically a tool called City Scope. The common thread for all examples was how this tool made it possible to use data visualisation to analyse patterns and potential outcomes when developing cities. By building physical representations of cities, and project...

Q&A – Imagining Institutions

August 31, 2023 11:22 - 22 minutes - 107 MB Video

Q&A from the session Imagining Institutions – (Re)making the Pillars of a Liquid Society with Dan Lockton (TU Eindhoven) and Anne Kaun (Södertörn University) 

Dan Lockton - Plural Imaginaries In an Age of Crises

August 31, 2023 11:22 - 19 minutes - 90.9 MB Video

How can we think about institutions differently? In a world of competing fictions, imaginaries are one our most potent resources. Dan Lockton wants to get imaginaries out of people's heads and into a shared space - to do things differently as a result. He has a few ideas about how to do so. Metaphors are central to our imagination. They have the power to harm, to limit, but also to create. So, in the quest to reimagine institutions, Dan proposes the creation of new metaphors, and has creat...

Anne Kaun – Automating Welfare: Interfaces and Backends of the Digital...

August 31, 2023 11:21 - 13 minutes - 53 MB Video

Reimagining public infrastructures and systems has the potential to enhance accessibility and usefulness for diverse groups within society. Instead of taking a starting point in creating digital tools (which is often the case), Anne Kaun suggests looking into the frictions that emerge in the use of digital platforms and infrastructures. Anne stages a scene, drawn from her real-life research to exemplify marginal stories of problems with navigating digital platforms and services. Imagine a ...

Michael Slaby – On the Possibility of a Utopi-Yin Path Forward

August 31, 2023 11:20 - 32 minutes - 103 MB Video

What if the cracks in our social and civic institutions are not signs of collapse but the first signs of transformation? Let’s face it: We’ve been living in an overly masculine society focused on dominion, growth, labour as a source of dignity, achievement as our basis of meaning and productivity as our key to purpose. But it’s a tale as old as humankind — and one we’ve put on to ourselves as a survival mechanism. Now, it’s on us to stop being at odds with nature. It’s a role that no longer...

Audrey Tang – Alignment Assemblies and Collective Intelligence

August 31, 2023 11:19 - 10 minutes - 39.2 MB Video

With the nuclear bombs detonating in 1945, Pandora’s box was unlocked. For Audrey Tang, Minister of Digital Affairs in Taiwan, Artificial Intelligence represents another box of Pandora that challenges us to think about how we can avoid the pitfalls for society and achieve collective global action. We as a society have a choice: Are we going to tumble into the abyss of abuse, manipulation, threat, cyber attacks, and deep fake, or are we going to embrace shared values, democracy, and global A...

Q&A – Entangled Economies

August 30, 2023 17:50 - 7 minutes - 23.5 MB Video

Q&A from the session Entangled Economies - Creating Value with Generosity and Interdependence with Jenny Grettve (Anon, When!When!), Timothee Parrique (Lund University), Eduardo Castello Ferrer (MIT).

Q&A – Wise Cities

August 30, 2023 17:41 - 7 minutes - 19.5 MB Video

Q&A from the session Wise Cities – Architecting Vibrant Connectivity with Liselott Stenfeldt (Gehl), Ling Tan (Kakilang,Umbrellium), Arnaud Grignard (Université de Lyon / MIT Media Lab). 

Ann Rosén – Opening performance

August 29, 2022 09:20 - 3 minutes - 15.4 MB Video

Artist and composer Ann Rosén performs a short concert. Ann Rosén (born 1956) is the composer, musician and artist who began her career in the visual arts in the 1980s with interactive, intelligent, and intriguing works. Since the 1990s, the artistic focus has been on music and sound art and Rosén has more than one hundred works behind her. The works have been performed at the Swedish Royal Opera, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and South Bank in London, among others Rosén’s art revolves aro...

Johanna Koljonen – Opening remarks 2022

August 29, 2022 09:14 - 10 minutes - 27.7 MB Video

Moderator Johanna Koljonen opens The Conference 2022.

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