UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Masterclass - Mashinka Firunts

UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Masterclass - Mashinka Firunts Hakopian

Join us for an exciting hybrid masterclass with Mashinka Firunts Hakopian at CSW - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs! Entrance to the room is across from Jimmy's Coffeehouse at Luvalle Commons.

Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.

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Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is an Armenian writer, artist, and researcher born in Yerevan and residing in Glendale, CA. She is an Associate Professor in Technology and Social Justice at ArtCenter College of Design. She was a 2021 visiting Mellon Professor in the Practice at Occidental College, where she co-curated the exhibition with Meldia Yesayan at Oxy Arts. From 2017-19, she held a teaching appointment in UCLA’s Department of English. She received a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. Her book, , was released by in December 2022 as the first in its X Topics series, edited by Ana Iwataki and Anuradha Vikram. She is the guest editor of the forthcoming spring 2023 issue of on artificial intelligence, co-edited with Sarah Higgins. Her current book project considers the role of ancestral intelligence and diasporic worldmaking in emerging technologies.

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