The following is the second recording from the Music and Virtual Worlds Workshop held on the 20th of June, 2024 – where invited guest, Emeritus Professor Karamjit Gill, co-founder and editor of the journal AI & Society reflected on his personal academic habitus; How he felt called to take action and respond to the question: How do you bring people together to help others, to make change and create social value through technology, without money, without power, without fame, and when the human-technological-systems to do this are yet to be invented?

As a side note: 

This segment of the workshop was originally intended as a dialog between Professors Karamjit Gill and Liam Bannon, talking about the role of technology in shaping human society and implications for computer mediated immersive experiences. 

Unfortunately, due to illness Liam was unable to attend on the day, but we did visit him later in the afternoon at University Hospital Limerick. As it happened, Liam was in great form and while he wasn’t able to check-out from the hospital on the day, he was able to finally meet Karamjit and Satinder on a warm summer’s evening. In fact it was their first face-to-face meeting even though they had known one another for many years and been involved in writing and reviewing for the journal from afar. 

So this is something by way of explanation for this episode’s cover art; a photo of Liam, Satinder, and Karamjit at UHL. And the lower picture is a snapshot from the panel discussion in the Irish Chamber Orchestra Building, University of Limerick.

Credit: Allen Higgins, 20th June 2024.

Notes, mentions, and further reading:

Mike Cooley (Wikipedia link) – Author of Architect or Bee? (1980). 

The Journal AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication (link). Published by Springer.  Established in 1987. Co-founded by Professors Michael Cooley and Karamjit Gill. Founding advisory board members: Joseph Weizenbaum, Hubert Dreyfus, Daniel Dennett, Maggie Boden, Terry Winograd, David F. Noble, Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky and others (see article at link).

XTREME – “Mixed Reality Environment for Immersive Experience of Art and Culture” (link) 

The INSYTE-Cooley Research Lab (I-CRL link) 

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

Source: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoni

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Cover Art 

Title: Vignettes from Limerick

Artist: Allen Higgins 

Source: LiamKaramjitSatinder_Cover_Art.pptx

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The following is a recording from the Music and Virtual Worlds Workshop held on the 20th of June, 2024 - a working event of the XTREME project, a research projected funded by the European Union.

The workshop was a preliminary activity of the XTREME project; which stands for

“’miXed Reality Environment for IMmersive Experience’ of Art and Culture”.

The goal of the project being to research new applications at the intersection between augmention technology and human kinaesthetic being. For example, by experimenting with embodied musical-artistic performance uniting AR/VR and AI, for therapeutic and other forms of human involvement.

The panel included:

Martin Cunneen, from the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick and local PI for XTREME.

Amanda Clifford, Physiotherapist, from the School of Allied Health, University of Limerick

Satinder Gill, from the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Music and Science

Emeritus Professor Karamjit Gill from University of Brighton and Editor of the journal AI & Society

Cathriona Murphy,

Gerry Keenan, 

And Simon Thompson from the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

And Andrew Kaung a researcher on the XTREME project.

The goal for the workshop was to explain the scope of XTREME and its inspiration in ideas surrounding the blend of music, dance, physical and virtual embodiment. The local partners gathered to meet and introduce themselves, their motivations and research interests. 

Professors Karamjit Gill and Liam Bannon had planned to prompt a dialogue centred on the role of technology shaping human society and implications for computer mediated immersive experiences. Unfortunately, due to illness Liam was unable to attend on the day and so Karamjit offered a personal reflection on his own academic habilitation and storied career, which we present in the second episode/recording of this event.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

XTREME – “Mixed Reality Environment for Immersive Experience of Art and Culture” is an EU Horizon 2020 project that started in January 2024 and will finish in December 2026. XTREME will explore and provide a mixed reality (MR) solution to experience different forms of art. The project is in close collaboration with 14 different partners who together will explore different alternatives to the traditional way of accessing music and art experiences.  https://xtremeitu.dk/about-xtreme 

Speakers: Martin Cunneen, Amanda Clifford, Satinder Gill, Karamjit Gill, Cathriona Murphy,Gerry Keenan, Simon Thompson and Andrew Kaung

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

Source: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoni

Licensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collage incorporating the XTREME logo image

Artist: Allen Higgins and XTREME project

Source: XTREME_Cover_Art.pptx

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The STS Ireland unconference of 25 June 2024.

Welcome by Kalpana Shankar

Professor Cassidy R. Sugimoto, chair of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor Rob Kitchin from the Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University.

(the unconference was held at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), St Stephen’s Green South, Dublin.)

Why an unconference? An unconference is an event where the attendees help set the agenda and content. Rather than papers and panels, we want to use this opportunity to foster networking and discussion.

The goal of this inaugural event was to acknowledge the specificities but also international connections/reach of STS (and the general implications of scientific research and policy here in Ireland) and bring researchers together for networking from different institutional and disciplinary homes. The unconference format included panel talks and small-group discussions to explore various facets of the socio-cultural study of technology, science, and medicine.

Schedule:

9:45 Registration

10:30-10:40 Overview/welcome

10:45-11:40 Keynotes

11:50-12:40 Panel discussion - Cassidy, Rob, Kalpana (Moderator - Christo)

12:50-1:50 Lunch

1:50-2:45 Breakout 1 (1:50 - 2:30, then return and discuss)

2:45-3:40 Breakout 2 (2:45 - 3:40)

3:45-4:30 Debrief and next steps

4:30-4:45 Closing

Notes, further reading:

Organised by Kalpana ([email protected]); Christo ([email protected])

The Website and registration link:  https://stscommunityireland.wordpress.com/

Supported by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Network Fund and the University College Dublin Centre for Digital Policy.

Museum of Literature Ireland - https://moli.ie

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: CrazyMix

Artist: Sandbox Korg Ableton

Source:  CrazyMix.aif

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Cover Art 

Title: Inspired by Wordpress Defaults

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: CITO-podcast-STS.pptx

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In this seminar, Professors Frank Barry and Marcin Piątkowski contrast Ireland and Poland’s pathways to economic independence and growth, through the lens of industrial and economic policy. This, against the turbulence of world events straddling the 20th and 21st centuries. We look at the growth of these two European nations ex-post being constituent states of colonial empires.

The seminar was chaired by Dorota Piaskowska, associate professor in strategy and international business at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Frank Barry is Professor of International Business & Economic Development at Trinity Business School and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

And Marcin Piątkowski is Professor of Economics at Kozminski University, Warsaw, and Lead Economist at the World Bank.

This talk was recorded in person with a live audience on April 8th, 2024, in the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Dublin, Ireland.

The seminar was supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin and the UCD College of Business.

Location - Lecture Theatre N204 (followed by a reception in the Laurence Crowley Boardroom)

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin

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See the show-notes or the description for details.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

Source: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoni

Licensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: GraphicsAndText

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: Collage/various (CITO-podcast-FrankMarcin.pptx)

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This ‘from the archives’ recording is the first part of the keynote from “ Triangular Conference 2008”.

We were delighted to have Dermot Moran and Lucas Introna to talk about the value of conducting research in the phenomenological tradition and considerations when carrying out research into organisations, information systems and modern technology.

Part 2

In part two Lucas argues that Phenomenology offers deep insights into fundamental aspects of the human experience of technology and information systems, with implications for the sociology of Management and Organisation.

The talk was recorded in-person with a live audience on Thursday June the 5th 2008 in the UCD Lochlann Quinn Undergraduate School of Business, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.

The conference was supported by the UCD School of Business Doctoral Studies Programme and hosted by the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO).

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

Source: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoni

Licensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: Discussion at the conference dinner

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: Collage/various (podcast-MoranIntrona_01.pptx)

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This ‘from the archives’ recording is the first part of the keynote from “ Triangular Conference 2008”.

We were delighted to have Dermot Moran and Lucas Introna to talk about the value of conducting research in the phenomenological tradition and considerations when carrying out research into organisations, information systems and modern technology.

Part 1

In part one Dermot introduces Phenomenology and argues for its continuing relevance to Philosophy and Science. 

The talk was recorded in-person with a live audience on Thursday June the 5th 2008 in the UCD Lochlann Quinn Undergraduate School of Business, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.

The conference was supported by the UCD School of Business Doctoral Studies Programme and hosted by the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO).

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

Source: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoni

Licensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: Discussion at the conference dinner

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: Collage/various (podcast-MoranIntrona_01.pptx)

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This seminar is titled "Investigate the frontline: performing an affective ethnography in a theatre workshop" by Laura Lucia Parolin, University of Southern Denmark & Carmen Pellegrinelli, University of Lapland

Laura is an ethnographer who uses the Latourian ANT approach, familiar with SCOT and HCI, Carmen is a theatre director, producer, and playwright. Their research is in the areas of materiality, affectivity and embodiment examining diverse empirical settings. They will present work-in-progress that on an affective ethnography of a theatrical laboratory organised for/by the hospital staff in Bergamo as a form of collective therapy. If you remember the hospitals in Bergamo were acutely affected during the Covid pandemic.

Organised by the UCD Centre for Innovation Technology and Organisation (CITO) - The seminar took place in-person on Tuesday, February 21st, 16.00-17.00 - in the Q026 Angela Moore Boardroom, Quinn School, University College Dublin. Introduction by Donncha Kavanagh, Professor of Information & Organisation, UCD College of Business.

Abstract

In March 2020, Bergamo was hit by the first wave of the pandemic. More than 6.000 people have died in the area, where the emergency facilities lived in a stressful situation for months. In January 2022, a group of ER doctors and nurses from the main hospital in Bergamo - the frontline in the crisis - wanted to reflect collectively on their experience with the pandemic. The group set up a one-year-long theatre workshop involving around thirty colleagues from the ER. The workshop also aimed to prepare a theatre show, "Giorni muti, notti bianche" (Silent days, sleepless nights), presented in Bergamo's main theatre. By participating in the theatre workshop, we conducted a collaborative affective ethnography to investigate the dimension of affect in ER professionals' work practices during the first wave of the pandemic. This contribution focuses on affective ethnography discussing the characteristics and potentials of this (post)qualitative research method for organisational scholars.

Laura Lucia Parolin ([email protected]) is Associate Professor of Organizational Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. She is interested in the relationship between knowledge, body, sensitivity, affect, care, materiality, and innovation in work practices. She is currently visiting UCD, having been awarded a Carlsberg foundation grant. 

Carmen Pellegrinelli ([email protected]) is finishing her PhD at Lapland University in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research interests are focused on creative practices, theatre and post-human philosophy. She is a professional playwright and director of theatre.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

Source: https://soundcloud.com/dick-de-ridder/adagio-in-g-minor-albinoni

Licensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: Digital Iris

Artist: (no attribution)

Source: digital_iris.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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The seminar took place virtually on Friday March 5th, 2021

Abstract

The widely accepted understanding of the firm is deeply flawed and is a serious impediment to policy-making. Indeed there seems to have been little advance in theory since 1937, when the youthful Ronald Coase tweaked economists, charging they could not explain why firms existed, let alone how they worked. Notions of managers making decisions 'scientifically' is not only narrow, it ends up erasing their practice's essential nature and socioeconomic significance. Spender revisits the nature of the firm and argues that managing might be more helpfully understood as entrepreneurship, a value-creating activity often supported by science's facts and reasoning but never 'dominated' by them. The human condition is one of uncertainty, of not-knowing and therefore questing for knowledge; Homo Inquirentes rather than Homo Sapiens. Taking this as the starting point, Spender goes on to explore the implications for the private sector firm and for managing.

About the speaker: 

JC Spender is Research Professor at Kozminski University, Warsaw and Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University, New Jersey and Fordham University, New York. He served in RN submarines and worked with Rolls-Royce on nuclear propulsion, IBM on financial computing, and as an investment banker before earning a PhD at the Manchester Business School (UK). Retired in 2003 as Dean of the School of Business & Technology at FIT/SUNY (New York). 

He has published 8 books, and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. His most recent book is titled Business Strategy: Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise (Oxford UP 2014) and is about managing a business's creative responses to uncertainty (‘business model innovation’). He also writes about the theory and ethics of the firm, business strategy, and the history of management education. He is Commissioning Editor for the Cambridge University Press Elements in Business Strategy. In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics by the Lund University School of Economics & Management. https://jcspender.com

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The seminar took place virtually on Wednesday December 9th, 2020

Abstract

Meaningful work is the idea that work holds an important role in the flourishing of societies and individuals. While there are many debates about what meaningful work is and whether we should take it seriously, this talk will focus on what I call the work-flourishing gap (WFG). Because work is a physical activity, there tends to be controversy as to how it can participate in those kinds of intellectual and imaginative activities we tend to associate with self-actualisation and flourishing. I will discuss how Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutical theory of action (based on speech acts) can help dissolve the WFG by demonstrating how the activity of work bears features of linguistic meaning. This linguistic claim enables us to see work as more than just a bare physical phenomenon; it is communicative in the broad sense of being assertoric (locutionary), conventional (illocutionary), and transformative (perlocutionary). I will conclude with a reflection on some practical examples.

About the speaker:

Todd Mei is founder of the public philosophy and consultation organization Philosophy2u. He calls himself a `public philosopher’. It involves adapting abstract concepts and ideas from philosophy and employing them to frame new ways of understanding work as meaningful and virtuous beyond obligatory, functional or mere utilitarian views.

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