Conversations 2021
We are pleased to announce our latest Interspecies Conversations workshop and public conference, held on July 30th & 31st, 2021 in collaboration with the Coller Foundation, Google and MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms.
Interspecies Conversations Workshop 2021
The Interspecies Conversations Workshop is an invitation-only private event. If you would like to show interest in attending please email info@interspecies.io with your name and affiliation. The event is capped at 200 attendees.
Interspecies Conversations Public Conference 2021
The day will feature speakers such as Clare Brooks, Creative Curator and Producer at Google Arts & Culture; Markus J. Buehler, MIT Professor of Engineering; Pratyusha Sharma from Project CETI and a special keynote from biologist and environmentalist, Dr Roger Payne. The event will host a multidisciplinary group of practitioners in the areas of animal cognition and communication, neuroscience, anthropology, AI and computer sciences, philosophers, artists and musicians. Contributors will share and debate research, thoughts and ideas about interspecies communication and approaches to deciphering the signals of other animals.
Public Conference
Saturday 31 July 2021
09:00 EDT/14:00 BST | Welcome
Founders & Jeremy Coller
09:30 EDT/ 14:30 BST | Scientific Research
Project CETI : Decoding the Language of Whales, Pratyusha Sharma, David Gruber
A sweet deal: how humans cooperate with wild birds to find honey, Jessica van der Wal, University of Cape Town
Cowmunication: Decoding cow vocalisations and applications for on-farm welfare assessment, Alexandra Green, University of Sydney
10:30 EDT/ 15:30 BST | Technology
LightAnimal, Haruyoshi Kawai
End-to-end source separation, Peter Bermant, Earth Species Project
CleverPet, Inc, TheyCanTalk Research Initiative, Leo Trottier, Federico Rossano
11:30 EDT/ 16:30 BST | Arts Science & Culture, reconnecting with the natural world
Arachnophilia: Spiders and Spider Webs, Markus J Buehler, MIT; Tomas Saraceno, artist; Evan Ziporyn, composer
Do bees like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers? Lars Chittka, Queen Mary, University of London
Art, emotion and ecology; Heartbeat of the Earth: a series of artistic explorations around ecology, Clare Brooks, Google Arts & Culture and Cristina Tarquini, Artist
12:30 EST/ 17:30 BST | A celebration of Whales
SnotBot – Drones for Whale Research, Iain Kerr, Ocean Alliance
Roger Payne, Keynote
Roger Payne & Jeremy Coller
Conclusions
Workshop
Friday 30 July 2021
09:00 EDT/14:00 BST | Welcome
Founders & Jeremy Coller
Mark Graham, The community landscape analysis: inventory of people and projects, Internet Archive
09:35 EDT/14:35 BST | Lightning talks
Project CETI : Decoding the Language of Whales, Pratyusha Sharma, David Gruber
Arachnophilia: Markus J Buehler, MIT; Tomas Saraceno, artist; Evan Ziporyn, composer
Ear to the ground: seismic vibrations for wildlife conservation and deciphering enigmatic animal communication modes, Tarje Nissen-Meyer, University of Oxford
Show me the honey: interspecies communication between humans and wild birds in Africa, Claire Spottiswoode, University of Cambridge & University of Cape Town
11:05 EDT/ 16:05 BST Curated Conversations
Hardware
Software
Internal
External
13:20 EDT / 18:20 Conclusions
