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Attention Activism with the Strother School of Radical Attention
FeaturedTurner Hall 1040 N Vel R. Phillips Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesPalmer Room @ Turner Hall, 1040 N Vel R. Phillips Ave, Milwaukee, WI Overview: Join C21 and the Milwaukee Turners for a day-long series of workshops led by the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA), an organization that promotes human …
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Critical Making Residency: Workshop Reception
Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesJoin us for this reception for the Critical Making Residency's Critical Workshop. The Critical Making Residency UWM hostsYevgeniya Kaganovich and Erica Meyer, visiting artists Cappy Counard, Susie Ganch, Anya Kivarkis, Heidi Lowe, Mary Pearse, and Lori Talcott with scholar Jennifer …
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Story Cart: Attention with Adam Carr – Beach Class
Klode Park 5960 N Lake Dr, Whitefish Bay, WisconsinWelcome to Beach Class! Among the waves, sand and stones, this morning will be devoted to “attention experiments” along Lake Michigan. Our time together will include a series of facilitated beach combing activities — inspecting what’s on the beachfront, spending …
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Book Talk: Mountain Dharma by David DiValerio
939 Curtin Hall 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesC21'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 …
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Story Cart: Attention with Madeleine Doelker Berlin – Open Attention Walk
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesIn 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 …
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State of the Humanities MKE
FeaturedCurtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesOverview Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at UW-Milwaukee for a panel discussion that explores how Milwaukeeans and Milwaukee organizations might sustain, expand, and care for the humanities across our city. In October 2024, the Consortium for Humanities …
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Story Cart with Madeleine Doelker Berlin – The Listening / Soundbath of the Ordinary
FeaturedMarquette Haggerty Museum of Art 530 N 13th St, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Listening / Soundbath of the Ordinary At the Haggerty Museum of Art's Community Art & Wellness Retreat, we'll attend to silence, noise, and everything in-between. Then, we'll talk about it, recording our conversations for the Story Cart's digital archive. …
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Slow AI: A Human Training Workshop
Golda Meir Library Fourth Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesPrompting isn’t just for ChatGPT. In this workshop, we’ll return our attention to older ways of writing and thinking that get hijacked by - but are also prototypes for - contemporary productivity models. The first ten attendees to register will …
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Language as Collaborator: Co-Creating with Thinking Machines
Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesThis 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.
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Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies (Opening Day)
FeaturedKenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesThis 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.