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Wednesday 28 April , 18.30 - 20.00

Remote Intimacy in Times of Social Distancing

Chair: Ghislaine Boddington, Creative Director, body>data>space / Reader in Digital Immersion, University of Greenwich

Rebecca Allen, VR and Augmented Reality Artist, Research Professor UCLA Department of Design Media Arts

Stephanie Alys, Entrepreneur and Business Strategist

Clémence Debaig, Dance Artist, Interaction Designer and Creative Technologist

Masaki Fujihata, Pioneer of Japanese New Media Art

Paul Miller (DJ Spooky), Composer, Multimedia Artist, Editor and Author

Wednesday 19 May, 16.30 - 18.00

The Pervasive Ethical Issues in Retail and Consumerism - Modifying Behavioural Patterns for Ethical Consumption

Chair: Dr Olga Martin-Ortega, Professor of International Law, University of Greenwich

Co-Chair: Eva Pascoe, Director of Ecommerce at The Retail Practice / Chair of Cybersalon

Dr Argyro Karanasiou, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Greenwich

Ingrid Karikari, Digital Consultant and Strategist

Michaela Larosse, Head of Content & Strategy, The Fabricant

Wednesday 19 May, 18.30 - 20.00

Gaming for Good - Sustainable Consumption and Production in a Data Driven World

Chair: Dr Jorge Lopes Ramos, Executive Director, ZU-UK, Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance, University of Greenwich

Dr Rilla Khaled, Associate Professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University in Montréal, Canada

Tim Laning, Co-founder and CEO, Grendel Games

Persis Jadé Maravala, Artistic Director, ZU-UK

Wednesday 9 June, 18.30 - 20.00

Sustainable and Ethical Usage of Body Data in Immersion Environments

Chair: Ghislaine Boddington, Creative Director, body>data>space / Reader in Digital Immersion, University of Greenwich

Shiv Malik, CEO, Pool Foundation

Mark Roman Miller, Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University

Anna Luisa Schaffgotsch, CEO & Founder of Impli, Implantable Healthcare

Serena Tabacchi, Co-founder and Director of MoCDA, the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art

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The events will take place online via Zoom and joining instructions will be emailed on the day of the event. There will also be a livestream on YouTube.

DATUM Public Talk Series is curated by Ghislaine Boddington (body>data>space/ University of Greenwich) as part of DATUM R&D (Innovate UK), with the support of University of Greenwich, and with inputs from body>data>space, ZU-UK and research groups CLEI, BHRE and LETS.

DATUM R&D is created and produced by ZU-UK (lead partner), University of Greenwich and body>data>space, with support from Innovate UK. This project is partnered with Strategic Research Groups at University of Greenwich - CLEI – Co-creating Liveness in Embodied Immersion, BHRE – Business, Human Rights and Environment and LETS – Law, Emerging Technologies & Science.