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Cynthia X. Hua is a new media artist interested in mass user participation, with the idea that computer technologies are works of the collective consciousness. She explores how mass user datasets can be clustered, collaged or computed together, examining how different modes of exchange result in different narrative aesthetics. Her installations and drawings employ tools such as algorithms, artificial intelligence and data mining to show the implicit impacts of digital infrastructure on human expression. Hua has exhibited or has work forthcoming at the SF Arts Institute, The Midway, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art and other institutions. She has been awarded fellowships from the Gray Area Foundation, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Signal Culture, The Laboratory as well as Harvard University. Her work has been featured in VentureBeat and CCTV, as well as An Artist's Guide to Computation and Real Life magazine. She has spoken about computer-based art at outlets such as Theorizing the Web, Creative Tech Week and NYU ITP. In addition to her artistic projects, Hua has previously worked in data science, studying on how machine learning algorithms shape the creative ecosystem online at companies such as Facebook, Buzzfeed and Hulu. Hua received her B.A. at Yale, writing her thesis on Internet media systems. Courtesy of JRC Summer School 2018 documentation http://cynthiaxhua.com

Today on Team Human we conclude our series of live shows recorded at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in the historic Mission district of San Francisco. Picking up where we left off last week and joining Douglas on stage are teammates Erik Davis and Josette Melchor. Erik Davis is the author of Techgnosis, Nomad Codes and host of The Expanding Mind podcast. Erik and Douglas start with the big question, “What the fuck is going on here?” What begins with a few laughs quickly digs into a mind-expanding conversation about those gray areas between religion, technology, and psychedelics. Erik and Douglas look for coherence and connection in these fractious times. Making this message concrete is Gray Area’s founder Josette Melchor. Josette resurrects our show segment “Real People Doing Real Things.” She offers both practical and profound lessons on building a safe space for community, creativity, and artistic exploration.As we conclude this series, we’d like to thank our teammates at Gray Area; Josette Melchor, Seabrook Gubbins, Alric Burns, our guests for both nights Annalee Newitz, Howard Rheingold, Lauren McCarthy, Erik Davis, and (again!) Josette Melchor. Thank you to the San Francisco community who came out to support and participate in the show. And sincere gratitude to our Patreon members who’s sustaining subscriptions made travel and recording possible.Sign up at Patreon. There you’ll find the complete, uncut San Francisco Live shows, plus other rewards and ways to Find the Others.During this live performance we featured Intro music from Fugazi, plus excerpts from Throbbing Gristle (Listen to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with Douglas on Episode 67). Mid-show you heard music by Mike Watt.This week's playing cards (thanks to Bobby Campell) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Playing for Team Human today is interactive artist Lauren McCarthy. Lauren’s thought provoking work brings a unique and creative perspective on social interaction and the intersection of humans and technology.In this episode, Lauren’s app Crowdpilot becomes the first “advertisement” to be featured on Team Human. Crowdpilot is an app in which real time conversation advice is crowdsourced from online third-party monitors. In another crowdsourcing experiment titled Social Turkers, McCarthy hired Amazon Mechanical Turks to participate with her on her own OkCupid dates. The Turks, connected via stream, give Lauren dating advice while she meets strangers in real life.Lauren also discusses Follower, a service that puts humans into the role of real-time surveillance. Users sign up to be followed for a day, answering two questions: Why do you want to be followed? Why should someone follow you?And finally, in her most recent project Lauren: A Human Smart Home Intelligence, Lauren attempts to become the human version of Amazon Alexa. What happens when our robot smart home devices are replaced with a real human?In this conversation with Douglas, the third in our series of live Team Human events at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Lauren helps us reconsider our relationship to social technologies, convenience, privacy, intimacy, and autonomy. Next week we’ll conclude our live series of shows from Gray Area with the part two of this show, featuring Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis, Nomad Codes and host of The Expanding Mind podcast. Gray Area founder Josette Melchor will also join the team to share her inspiring story on building a home for digital arts and supporting the local community.Patrons of Team Human got into these events free. Sustain Team Human by subscribing via patreon.com/teamhuman.If you are enjoying this live series, please consider giving us a review on iTunes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we continue with part two of our special live recording of Team Human at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in San Fransisco. Joining Douglas on stage is cyberculture pioneer, educator, artist, author, visionary, and shoe painter, Howard Rheingold. “Mind amplifiers,” “psychedelic signifiers,” and “the instrumental vs. the sacred” are just the tip of the iceberg in a conversation that explores how we got to this moment in technology and society... and ultimately where we hope to go. Following Rushkoff and Rheingold’s conversation, Sci-Fi author and technology journalist Annalee Newitz (hear Newitz's conversation in part 1) rejoins the team for a roundtable discussion and audience Q & A. If you are just discovering Team Human, check out last week’s Episode 75, featuring the first hour of this of this live show with guest Annalee Newitz. Patreon supporters have access to the complete uncut interview at patreon.com/teamhuman. Music heard on today’s show; “Walkabout” by Throbbing Gristle (hear Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on Episode 67) Also heard on the show, music by Team Human Ep. 68 guest Stacco Troncoso plus intro and outro music from Fugazi.If you enjoyed these live shows, Please share a review of Team Human on iTunes. Your recommendation helps Team Human to “find the others.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Team Human comes to you recorded live at the historic Grand Theater in San Francisco's Mission District, home to Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. We'll be sharing four installments of this live event, kicking it off with a conversation with Annalee Newitz, author of the mind blowing sci-fi novel Autonomous, as well as prior work Scatter Adapt and Remember: How Humans will Survive a Mass Extinction, founder of I09, and journalist for outlets such as Ars Technica among many others.Annalee joins Douglas on stage to talk about artificial intelligence, autonomy, tech ethics, robot sex, saving the planet and more. It's a lively discussion, energized by the presence of a wonderful and welcoming audience.Rushkoff kicks off this live series with an excerpt from his Team Human Manifesto, an excellent primer on the motivation driving this podcast and the connections being forged through its members.Next week we'll pick up with part two of this live show, featuring cyberculture pioneer, educator, and artist Howard Rheingold.During this live performance we featured Intro music from Fugazi, plus excerpts from Throbbing Gristle (Listen to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with Douglas on Episode 67)You can sustain Team Human by subscribing via Patreon. Patreon members received free access to these San Francisco Events. Visit patreon.com/teamhuman to join. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Playing for Team Human today is journalist, Boing Boing editor, Institute for the Future research director and recent Grammy Award Winning record producer David Pescovitz. Douglas spoke to David just days before he won the Grammy, with collaborators Tim Daly and Lawrence Azerrad, for best boxed or special limited-edition package for The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition. The Voyager vinyl is an incredible artifact to hold and hear. The original Voyager Golden Records were launched on board the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977. Today these phonograph records are floating in interstellar space on Voyager 1 and at the edge of our solar system on Voyager 2. The records contain greetings, messages of peace, recordings of the “Sounds of Earth,” as well as an arresting collection of music from across the globe. The Voyager project continues to resonate as both a time capsule and a beacon of hope. Pescovitz, Daly, and Azerrad's meticulously sourced and documented 40th Anniversary vinyl release pays homage to the wonder and hopeful spirit that animates this space project. On today’s show, Pescovitz and Rushkoff talk about the creation of these incredible artifacts. Find the Voyager Golden Record 40th Anniversary Edition at Pescovitz’s Ozmarecords. You can also learn more about the Voyager project here. Check out these amazing photos of the making of this 40th Anniversary Edition:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ozmarecords/voyager-golden-record-40th-anniversary-edition/posts/1755549Team Human is entirely listener supported. Thanks to our new January supporters who have subscribed to this show via Patreon. And don’t forget that you can find us on the road this month in San Francisco! Douglas will be hosting the first Team Human live event on February 16 and 17 at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Patreon subscribers get free access to the shows. Come find the others! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Josette Melchor operates best in a space loosely defined and without labels, hence the name of the nonprofit she founded, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, which is dedicated to applying art and technology to create social and civic impact. On this episode of Making Ways, Josette talks about her unconventional upbringing in the desert of Indio, California (best known for hosting the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival), the moment as a late teen she discovered her passion for art, how Gray Area came to be, and the collaborations with local artists, technologists, and tech giants that keep each and every day fresh and help her grow as an individual, a community leader, a manager, and a mentor. Tune in for a fascinating tale of a creative career born of curiosity and rooted in making a change for good.