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Andrea Colamedici: Prompt Thinking
This past week, the Department of Communication and Media Studies at JCU welcomed Andrea Colamedici for a lecture on Prompt Thinking, part of the Spring 2026 edition of the event series Digital Delights & Disturbances (DDD). Prompt Thinking explores how artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the nature of thought. In the age of generative AI, prompting becomes more than…
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Auriea Harvey: The Sacred Screen
This week, the Department of Communication and Media Studies at JCU welcomed Auriea Harvey for a lecture titled The Sacred Screen, part of the Spring 2026 edition of the event series Digital Delights & Disturbances (DDD). After 30 years creating with digital media, through the browser wars, the rise and fall of net.art, indie games, NFTs, and now AI, artist Auriea…
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Dr. Omar Al-Ghazzi: Middle East Coverage and the Authoritarian Turn in Western Media
The Department of Communication and Media Studies at John Cabot University in collaboration with the Department of Political Science and International Affairs hosted our final talk of the Fall 25 DDD series with Dr. Omar Al-Ghazzi. This talk examined the effects of Western coverage of the Middle East. Taking the BBC as a prime example, it argued that Middle East…
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Elisa Giardina Papa: AI, Labor, and Incomputable Data
In this talk, Elisa Giardina Papa outlined the theoretical and archival research which informs two of her video installations, Technology of Care and Cleaning Emotional Data. Presenting images, she collected while working as a “data cleaner” for various AI systems, she addressed the ways in which machines are disciplined and trained to see. Tracing, bounding-boxing, and labeling are…
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Mazen Kerbaj: Gaza In My Phone
Gaza in My Phone collects the complete drawings made by Lebanese artist Mazen Kerbaj in response to the ongoing genocidal campaign on Gaza. As early as the 9th of October 2023, Kerbaj started drawing in reaction to the horrors that all of us were, and still are, seeing daily on our screens and posting the images on his…
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TJ Demos: Gaza’s Genocide/Ecocide, Technolibertarian Warfare, and the Seeds of Survival.
Professor TJ Demos examines technolibertarianism’s devastating impact in Gaza, linking advanced weaponry, Al surveillance, and settler-colonial policy. Addressing both Lowenstein’s Palestine Laboratory and Vivien Sansour’s art, Demos discusses ongoing resistance, ecological endurance, and warns of dystopian futures where profit overrides life and land. This fusion of libertarian ideology and Israeli policy constructs a deeply troubling…
