Dear Colleagues, Digital Caretaking ☲fireside☲ Talk Series (Online) every 2nd Tuesday from 9.7 until 3.12 2024, at 1700hrs AEST / 09.00hrs GMT+1 / 08.00 CEST /.* The short-form ☲fireside☲ talk series features a transdisciplinary cohort of researchers who provide a glimpse into the permacomputing movement, feminist webserver cooperatives, Opensource Visual Design Tools, citizen-led policy analysis, experimental sandboxing, anti-colonial feminist fora, and data fauna projects. Next in the lineup is Series 4 - 20.8.2024 Charm Crafting Algorithms and Automation Governance, Guest Dr Denisa Reshef Kera Host Dr Nancy Mauro-Flude Series 4 - 20.8.2024 ☲fireside☲ talk takes a deep dive into 21st-century Charm Craft with Dr Denisa Reshef Kera whose work sits at the frontiers of art, design, and policy, offering insights into how to chant and hum over AI Agents using prompts as regulatory artefacts and tools of communicative action. It engages speculative sandboxing as quasi-public spaces working with emerging infrastructures. Hot off the press is Denisa’s 2024 book "Algorithms and Automation Governance over Rituals, Machines, and Prototypes, from Sundial to Blockchain" Routledge, which traces the development of algorithms and automation from ancient rituals to modern-day prototypes and highlights the challenges posed by new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. More info: https://www.autoluminescence.institute/events/digitalcaretaking_talks/series... Further info: https://www.autoluminescence.institute/events/digitalcaretaking_talks/ Nancy Mauro-Flude ░░ College of Design and Social Context, RMIT | autoluminescence.institute ░░