The 16th edition of CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival, is taking place June 13–22, 2025, at El Museo Cultural (Railyard Arts District) in downtown Santa Fe, NM. This year’s festival features over 70 works by 90 artists from around the world, along with exhibitions, multimedia performances, and a weekend bar—but what makes this edition especially significant is…

In an era of rapid technological advancement and growing concerns about economic equity and sustainability, two promising approaches offer alternative visions for our economic future: the civic economy and the protocol economy. What happens when the civic economy meets the protocol economy?

​​Innovation is a dominant ideology of our era, embraced in America by Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Washington DC political elite. As the pursuit of innovation has inspired technologists and capitalists, it has also provoked critics who suspect that the peddlers of innovation radically overvalue innovation. What happens after innovation, they argue, is more…

​​The Commission launched a public consultation on the future Digital Product Passport. The objective is to gather stakeholders’ views on how data should be stored and managed by service providers and on the need for a certification scheme for such service providers. The feedback gathered through the public consultation will inform the development of an…

IoT Day 2025April 9, 20254:00 pm –8:00 pm Webinar, FranceA Theoretical Use Case of Training on Ethical Challenges through Generative AI and IoT A conversation among AI experts at SNCF Group about the ethics challenges of a GenAI-powered avatar created to assess the potential of a Theoretical Use Case featuring the training of employees in…

Lunch at Katerschmaus with Felipe, Adam and Matthias was just geweldig as the Dutch would say. Felipe Schmidt Fonseca Ph.D effe, Adam Burns and Mathias Jud. In a way we came back full circle to the energy Felipe, @Venzha, Matt Ratto and Denis Roio felt when we founded Bricolabs early 2000. A strong belief in…

The Lifelike Computing Systems initiative [1] aims to learn from the study of life and living systems to develop new, practical, computing systems that possess ‘lifelike’ properties; a further goal is to identify when such complex features are of particular value to people, society, and the world. The initiative’s focus lies primarily on engineered technological…

Aimilios Tsiaprazis in collaboration with the DIGIS3 initiative, hosted its inaugural Infoday on 17 March, led by the AIR Institute. The event, titled “Cybersecurity and IoT in Industry 5.0,” highlighted current advancements and challenges in securing the evolving industrial landscape. Key partners like Collins Aerospace, Trust Square, and Digital Worx showcased use cases in aircraft…

Designs for More-than-Human Landscapes Newsletter – April 2025Well… that took longer than expected – it’s been almost a YEAR since the last HAQUE TAN newsletter… Ling & Usman have been super busy and, let’s face it, also reluctant to talk about work before it’s finished, but by then they’re already flat out on the next…

T(h)reeClarence Gardens, London, UKCo-created with residents of Regent’s Park Estate, T(h)ree is a permanent landscape intervention in Central London, integrating community knowledge with natural infrastructure and AI technology to give ‘voice’ to a London Plane Tree that has witnessed hundreds of years of history, so people can talk with it and ask questions. Every now…