Dr. Michael Lithgow is a communication scholar and writer at Athabasca University, Canada.

Dr. Lithgow’s lecture explores possibilities for challenging the biopolitics of algorithmic cultures with the aesthetics of computational ambiguity. Computers and software systems including machine learning and AI harbour enormous potential for unexpected, subvert- ing and destabilizing outcomes, which can be seen in the work of artists exploring the ambiguities of glitch aesthetics, machine learning indeterminacies and stochastic surprise.