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Professor Jennifer González	Distinguished Professor J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

The 55th Annual Faculty Research Lecture (rescheduled from 2021) given by Professor Jennifer González, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC) and Digital Art and New Media.	The 56th Annual Faculty Research Lecture (2023) given by Distinguished Professor J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
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Silent Speech, Migratory Gesture	Research Directions on Communication Protocols for Intelligent Information Infrastructures

In this talk, Professor González explores speech and silence in the history of art, with a special emphasis on the role of art as a form of political democracy.	How communication protocols can be reimagined taking into account machine intelligence and memory, and outline research directions for the development of protocols for intelligent information infrastructures.
Climate change, economic inequality and violence have caused over 280 million people to migrate from their country of origin in just the last few decades. This talk considers how the visual arts articulate the personal impact and the systemic conditions of this devastating human experience. In hauntingly poetic and pointedly activist works, contemporary artists explore the geopolitics of migration. Bodies become the surface for writing, gestures evolve into map making, language comes under erasure. Producing a kind of silent speech, artists track tensions of visibility and invisibility, displacement and transnational movement in the lives of everyday migrants. This lecture draws from a larger research project exploring speech and silence in the history of art, with a special emphasis on the role of art as a form of political democracy.	The computer networks we enjoy today have been built based on the initial designs by giants in the field of computer networks dating back to the 1960’s to 1980’s. These architectures and protocols have proven to be remarkably useful; however, the communication, computing, and storage resources available today are many orders of magnitude larger and far more affordable than researchers could have ever imagined 50 years ago. The availability of vast computing resources today allows us to reimagine how the Internet could operate if far more machine intelligence were used inside the networks themselves, rather than just at the servers and clients using them, and to develop new network architectures and protocols for intelligent information infrastructures. In this talk I describe early results showing how communication protocols can be reimagined taking into account machine intelligence and memory, and outline research directions for the development of protocols for intelligent information infrastructures