Inclusive Spaces: CurrenSee - An inclusive attention economy

This month’s seminar presents four provocations by Current founders Provides Ng, Eli Joteva, Ya Nzi, and Artem Konevskikh on livestreaming culture, volumetric reconstruction, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and personalisation.   

Participants are invited to join the discussion on how these technological ideas might act as socio-economic drivers to changes in how we circulate values in the attention economy - a digital ‘CurrenSee.’ This event will explore how a decentralised network of humans, machines, and environments extend their network effects from the virtual back to the physical; how big data can be used to reflect and project events of real-time climate change in cities, and what happens if we interact peer-to-peer (p2p) and collectively direct the value of our attention to spaces in need.    

CurrenSee - An inclusive attention economy will also showcase a 10-minute film that speculates on the future of an inclusive attention economy built upon the research of project Current.  

About the speakers 

Current is an interdisciplinary, intercultural collective whose digital practice is driven by an interest in the reciprocal relationships between virtual and physical spaces. Through the medium of volumetric cinema, ‘Current’ delineates the multiplicity of futures in the attention economy.

The collective was founded by Provides Ng (Lecturer of digital theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture), Eli Joteva, Ya Nzi, and Artem Konevskikh, a collection of architects, researchers, artists CGanimator, engineers, data-scientists, and programmers working at the intersection of art and science. They experiment first-hand with technologies that are readily available to any individuals, formulating distributive pipelines to support ‘collaborative intelligence’ - the democratisation of tools into a decentralized, crowdsourced, problem-solving network.

About the host

Daniel Fitzpatrick is a Lecturer (Teaching) in Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. His research is focussed on social sustainability, governance of social infrastructures and community-led responses to climate change. 

Led by The Bartlett Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) group, the Inclusive Spaces monthly series presents the latest research and ideas from The Bartlett’s world-leading thinkers on race, gender, LGBTQ+, and disability – and other dimensions of diversity in the built environment. 

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