Please try to attend this seminar if you can.

Best Regards, Ishtiaque

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute https://www.torontosri.ca/ University of Toronto, ON, CA Ph: +1 647 220 3482 Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&ctz=America%2FToronto

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Breanna Lohman bree.lohman@mail.utoronto.ca Date: Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:59 AM Subject: Upcoming Talk: Critical Approaches to the History of Computing | April 27 at 12:10 PM To: Ishtiaque Ahmed ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu

Ishtiaque,

I hope this email finds you well. My name is Bree Lohman and I TA'ed for CSC 300 back in 2019. I am writing because I am organizing an event that may be of interest to the Critical Computing Seminar. It'll take place on the Tuesday of next week. If you think folks will be interested, feel free to circulate this. I'm attaching posters as well.

Best, Bree

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*Critical Approaches to the History of Computing* The Jackman Humanities Institute working group, “Planetary Resistance: On Computing and the Climate,” is hosting a panel dedicated to thinking of new ways of doing the history of computing. In this context, however, “computing” is less about literal computational technology than it is about a cluster of tendencies toward data-driven economies, subjectivities, politics, environments, and ways of imagining worlds. Each of our speakers has been producing some of the most exciting, forward-thinking, and politically-engaged histories of computing. For all of them, the history of computing is the history of the present. Join us for a critical and engaging discussion on how to expand our ways of thinking, imagining, and telling the story of how computing came to be one of the most important ordering forces of our world.

"Critical Approaches to the History of Computing" will take place over Zoom on *Tuesday, April 27 at 12:10 PM EST*. It will feature talks by *Joy Rankin* http://joyrankin.com/ and *Kris Cohen* https://www.reed.edu/art/cohen/, with a response by *Jacob Gaboury* https://jacobgaboury.com/.

If you are interested in attending, we invite you to register *here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSee1g9tE0SpMgbkkhudbeNxQ56DG_IUW_yF2xzSqSXrJNu91A/viewform.*

*Joy Rankin* http://joyrankin.com/ leads the research program in Gender, Race, and Power in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the AI Now Institute at New York University. Her latest book, *A People's History of Computing*, reassesses histories of computing by examining contributions of figures and institutions ignored elsewhere.

*Kris Cohen* https://www.reed.edu/art/cohen/ is an Assistant Professor of Art History & Humanities at Reed College. His latest book project, *The Human in Bits*, examines technologized personhood, the personal computer, and the "history of aesthetic experiments with a non-representational politics of blackness."

*Jacob Gaboury* https://jacobgaboury.com/ is an Assistant Professor of Film & Media at the University of California at Berkeley. His forthcoming book, *Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics*, will be published by MIT Press later this year. In *Image Objects*, Gaboury undertakes a material history of computer graphics to illustrate how they "structure the production and circulation of all digital images today."

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact *bree.lohman@mail.utoronto.ca bree.lohman@mail.utoronto.ca*.