Poster session
Eight Year Olds, Avatars and the Presentation of Self Online: Navigating Social Media Spaces through Considered Discourse and Image
Poster Session Poppy Gibson
This poster presents findings from an empirical doctoral study involving young female participants aged 8-11 years old in London, United Kingdom. Three data sets were gathered: interviews, questionnaire and a discourse analysis from a secure online blog, and then analysed through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). In perfect fitting with this conference, the focus hones in on the digital avatars created by the participants as they aimed to create and portray themselves online in social media spaces, and a consideration of the implications of young children being visible (or hidden) in such spaces.
The Measurement and Evaluation of Community Interest in the Arts and Partnership Development
Poster Session Anna Szabados
This poster describes the design, development and distribution of surveys and other measurement tools in order to identify community interest in the arts with a focus on suburban and rural environments. The study also identifies the approval process of the plan, and the ongoing evaluation of community outreach. The results of the applied research will be incorporated into the design and development of a strategic plan. During the presentation, there will be discussion with several examples of partnership development between government entities, educational institutions, private organizations, and ideas for joint marketing efforts. Participants will receive detailed handouts of the presentation including the outline of the strategic plan.
Featured The Mask of the Ciberbandido : Surveillance Resistencia
Poster Session Colton Campbell
Xicanx people are indigenous to Aztlán, an internal colony with irredentist claims to the southwest territories of The United States of America. Under the Trump Administration, state sponsored terror in the form of digital psyops, surveillance, disappearances, and immigration raids threaten a protracted insurgency that desperately needs a way to protect its collective identity. The Guy Fawkes Mask is used to both protect the identities of the hacker collective Anonymous, as well as unify them under a single symbol. There needs to be a Xicanx version, more brown, less blush. This mask can unite Xicanx people in protest, rasquache constructed, with images indiscernible in basic form from the racist mannequins that dance across the red, white, blue, silver, and digital screens. Built as resistance, this research develops El Pachuco’s cyber camouflage: a Güey Fawkes Mask. The Mask of the Ciberbandido. This symbol informs a decolonial pedagogical model while also being a practical tool for protest.
From Hallucinations to Hallelujah: Enhancing Critical Consciousness and Creative Ability Through Generative Artificial Intelligence
Poster Session William Gates
What is the relationship between image generative artificial intelligence (AI) and human creative ability? What are AI Hallucinations? And how might a methodology of critical consciousness be utilized with generative AI to facilitate enhanced creative ability? In sweeping fashion AiI has now integrated every facet of human endeavor from writing stories to identifying disease, and from education to art. Many people fear that AI will result in diminished creativity in human culture. However, by itself AI does not do anything. It is only when engaged by people that Generative AI can produce something. Therefore, the ways and methodologies in which we use it become critically relevant and will determine its effects upon us and our culture. AI Hallucinations are commonly considered to be non-sensical, but when interrogated they can reveal a deeper value. These unexpected juxtapositions can shift our perspectives and lead to new kinds of questions and unexamined connections and relationships. AI, like any tool, when used creatively can become an invaluable source for stimulating the imagination. In French there is a term that means the perfect word: “Le Mot Juste”. In seeking experimental semantics in crafting prompts for AI image generation, “Le Mot Juste” is an avenue for creative expansion and enhanced learning. This work explores the correlation between enhanced creative ability, accelerated deep learning, the creative assessment of images produced by generative AI and a process of critical consciousness that embraces semantic rarity and complexity in the crafting of prompts for image generative AI.
