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The 10th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on “Image in SF” was a great success!

If you missed it, you can watch each session in the videos embedded below.

The original call for papers is here and the program with participant bios can be found here.

Videos of the 10th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium

9:00AM Opening Remarks
Jason Ellis and Justin F. Vázquez-Poritz

9:20AM Paper Session 1
Moderator: Kel Karpinski
Jason Ellis, “10 Year Retrospective”
Mary Billyou, “Pocket Paperback & Pulp Magazine Covers of Important LGBTQIA+ Texts in the City Tech Science Fiction Collection”
Frank Wu, “Images of Aliens and Strange Creatures in Astounding and Analog Science Fiction and Fact“

10:50AM Paper Session 2
Moderator: Wanett Clyde
Richard Rivera, “Cli-Fi and Community Alliance and Reporting Environmental Systems (CARES)”
Jason Ellis, “City Tech SF Collection”
Jim Keen, “Hallucinated Cities: Designing Cognitive Environments Through Image and Imagination”

1:10PM Student Panel: “‘Never did I behold a vision so horrible’: Frankenstein Reimagined”
Moderator: Vivian Zuluaga Papp
Gal Ben Baruch, Gilberto Martinez, Michael Peterkin Jr., Yudesh Ramphal, Chandler Wu, Kaiwei Yu, and Elijah Zindoga

2:10PM Analog/Asimov’s Artists and Writers Panel
Moderator: Emily Hockaday
Donato Giancola
Aleksandra (Ola) Hill
Kris Dikeman
Frank Wu

4:00PM Keynote Address: “Is Contemporary Science Fiction Strange Enough?”
Moderator: Leigh Gold
Keynote Speaker: Carlos Hernandez

Photos of Carlos Hernandez from the Keynote Address

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The 9th City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on SF, Artificial Intelligence, and Generative AI was a resounding success! It was well attended and the discussions followed after it despite it being our first event back in person since the beginning of COVID. Below, you will find videos of each session and a selection of photographs by Andrew Porter, the Hugo-winning editor and publisher.

9:00AM Opening Remarks
Jason Ellis and Justin F. Vázquez-Poritz

9:20AM Paper Session 1
Moderator: Wanett Clyde
Jason Ellis, “A History of Generative AI in SF”
Jacob Adler, “The End Zone: A.I. as a Commentary on the Human Condition in 17776”
Martijn J. Loos, “A Plea for Theory: The Relationship Between Real-World AI and its Representation in Science Fiction”

10:50AM Paper Session 2
Moderator: Kel Karpinski
Virginia L. Conn, “The Tyranny of Neutrality in AI 2041”
Nathan Lamarche, “Monotheistic Ethics in Caprica: The Consequences of AI Development on Queer Futurity”
Adam McLain, “Computational Poetics: Franny Choi’s Soft Science and the Dialogues to Come”

1:10PM Student Panel
Moderators: Jill Belli and Vivian Zuluaga Papp
Lucas Felipe
Journey Ford
Malik Joseph
Christine Retirado
Ronald Hinds

2:10PM Asimov’s/Analog Writers’ Panel
Moderator: Emily Hockaday
Sarah Pinsker
Mercurio D. Rivera
Sakinah Hoefler
Matthew Kressel

4:00PM Keynote Address
Speaker:
Marleen S. Barr, “Science Fiction/AI/Feminism: A Temporal Progression”
Moderator: Leigh Gold