karen darricades (Toronto, Ontario) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, host of the #WeMakeMedia podcast and head of Arts and Culture for Creative Commons Canada. This project is an opportunity for her to learn about while contributing to understandings of what artificial intelligence CAN and CANNOT be, and the very nature of being. Raising McLuhan is an extension of her work’s explorations of power, access and non-human intelligence as they relate to collective consciousness, sentiences, and the social climate of hype and fear surrounding emerging tech. karen will talk about how this project relates to her new media and literacy education work as well as current Chalmers Fellowship research on response-able stewardship of culture heritage and GLAM collections.