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Elon Magazine: Anthropology, Satire, and Collaborative Hallucination with Sentient Machines
02 Dec 2024

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    December 2, 2024 | 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM ET

    115 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10006
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    This presentation explores Elon Magazine, a work of design anthropology that uses parody to explore the celebrity and cultural milieu of Elon Musk. While the magazine is comprised of writing based on research and fieldwork, many of the visuals were produced via extensive collaboration with the generative artificial intelligence model, Midjourney. The talk will bring this project into dialogue with Salter and Saunier’s recent work (2023) on material encounters between humans and sentient machines. It will also include an interactive activity exploring human-AI collaboration. Dr. Campbell and his collaborators describe Elon as a “hype(r)ethnography of brometheanism in the time mass-extinction.” The lecture sets the stage for a lively discussion about design anthropology, fame, and artificial intelligence.

    Speaker

    Craig Campbell
    Associate Professor of Anthropology
    University of Texas, Austin

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    All: Free

    About the Series

    Since 1877, the Anthropology Section of The New York Academy of Sciences has served as a meeting place for scholars in the Greater New York area. The section strives to be a progressive voice within the anthropological community and to contribute innovative perspectives on the human condition nationally and internationally. Learn more and view other events in the Anthropology Section series.

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