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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Blind Date Book Swap
DESCRIPTION:Blind Date Book Swap is a cozy\, Valentine’s-inspired gathering and interactive workshop. Students are invited to bring their favorite or most meaningful book to swap with someone else. Attendees will wrap their book in secretive\, creative ways and attach a handwritten note with general ideas about the book and the reason for their selection. Themed treats\, drinks\, and extra books will be provided! \n\nPre-registration required for food ordering purposes. Register at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/16203.
UID:142891-21891772@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142891
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Arts For All,Undergraduate,Reading,Literature,Humanities,Books
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institue for the Humanities lobby and Osterman Common Room
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DTSTAMP:20251222T090325
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bowerbirds: Optimization\, The Evolution of Aesthetics\, and Art
DESCRIPTION:Native to Australia and Papua New Guinea\, bowerbirds’ uniquely curatorial behavior has long fascinated ornithologists and evolutionary biologists\, who cannot explain their creative process. Different birds choose and arrange objects in surprisingly different ways. They are often described as the artists of the animal world because their creations are as difficult to understand as those of human artists. Their arrangements demonstrate a sensitivity to scale\, composition\, texture\, and the interaction of color. There is no way to express their process as a step-by-step algorithm or optimization problem. Like human art\, their compositions transcend easily measurable metrics like efficiency\, quantity\, and strength. Bowerbot is a robotic bowerbird that transforms an empty gallery space by arranging colorful objects such as flowers\, leaves\, and trash. Visitors will offer Bowerbot objects\, which it might accept or reject. Using artificial intelligence (AI) trained on photographs of bowerbirds’ elaborate bowers\, Bowerbot will learn how male bowerbirds create “artworks” to attract a mate.
UID:143058-21891991@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143058
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Academic Technology At Michigan,Stamps Art And Design,Lecture,Generative Ai,Genai,Free
LOCATION:Dana Building - 1040
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