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REGISTER NOW Climate infowhelm is the experience of feeling overwhelmed by too much information about the environmental crisis. Heather Houser will discuss how infowhelm feels, sounds, and looks in various media and how contemporary art manages environmental knowledge and provides new ways of understanding environmental change. Audience Q&A will follow. Heather Houser is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and ...

Image: Half of these faces are of real people and the other half are AI-synthesized (i.e., deep fake). Can you tell which is which? REGISTER NOW Although varied in their form and creation, deep fakes refer to AI-synthesized image, audio, or video. Deep fakes add to a long line of techniques for manipulating reality, but their introduction poses new risks because of the democratized access to what would have historically been the purview of Hollywood-style ...