The Futures and GenAI Symposium Series was conceived as a response to the widespread techno-utopian and apocalyptic discourses of imminent catastrophe emanating from the rapid public uptake of artificial intelligence technologies. 

Futures and GenAI 2.0 explores the underlying modes of thought, practices of worlding, and emerging infrastructures that both animate and inhabit AI technologies and their complicated futures. What we now identify as the rapidly changing normativities around AI imply a refashioning of both our embodied experiences and our politics. The controversial changes and ambiguous adaptations of AI in both our research and everyday lives force us to ask difficult questions about human and nonhuman forms of being and knowing, challenging us to consider both the limits of agency and our own critical imagination.
 
Following our conviction that slowing down and raising more questions than providing answers can lead to both creative outcomes and productive interactions, we envision the Futures and GenAI 2.0 Symposium as an experimental space for playing with ideas and models, while pushing the boundaries of our intellectual practices. The symposium will bring together scholars from varied disciplines, artists, and practitioners for two days of constructive and collaborative research exchange. The program will consist of 4 keynote lectures by leading international scholars, roundtable discussions with local experts, and artistic keynote focusing on creative, hands-on exploration of the potentials and limitations of generative AI.