• Book Talk: Mountain Dharma by David DiValerio

    939 Curtin Hall 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    C21's Critical Asian Humanities Reading Group presents a book talk by UWM History professor David DiValerio about his newly published book Mountain Dharma. This event is free and open to the public. About Mountain Dharma: Meditative Retreat and the Tibetan Ascetic …

  • Story Cart: Attention with Madeleine Doelker Berlin – Open Attention Walk 

    Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    In the middle of a neighborhood block party, we’ll send people on undirected wanders. If they come back, we’ll ask them how it went. Madeleine will be taking interviews from 2:00 - 5:00 PM. C21 will be present to vibe …

  • Human Club: Disappearance Jail Wisconsin discussion and workshop

    Marquette Haggerty Museum of Art 530 N 13th St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Take a trip with Human Club to the Haggerty Museum of Art for a discussion and workshop about art and the impact of incarceration with artist Maria Gaspar along with Dr. Robert S. Smith, Director of the Center for Urban Research Teaching …

  • Language as Collaborator: Co-Creating with Thinking Machines

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    This workshop explores language as a vital creative material and as a medium for collaborative authorship. Through hands-on experimentation, participants will engage questions of imagination, translation, and meaning-making in the age of AI.

  • Generations and Generativity: Post-AI Aesthetics in Practice

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    Join the Center for 21st Century Studies, artist-technologist Nathaniel Stern, poet-researcher Sasha Stiles, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a panel discussion about the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production.   

  • Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

    This groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent through an immersive fusion of sculptures, prints, electronics, music, movement, and poetry, all born from creative collaboration with AI.