Life Calling

This week we are honored to be collaborating with Bellwethers Group’s SXSW London Nature & Climate House.

Our Founder, John Mack , hosted an interactive session “A Return to Nature: The Opportunity for Wisdom” yesterday evening.

Attendees joining in for the week-long Nature & Climate House program are also invited to participate in Life Calling’s global cultural campaign, Notes to Humanity, a prompt to reflect on one simple, yet vital question:

“What does it mean to preserve your humanity in the Digital Age?”

Kicked off yesterday, along with our interactive exhibit at the Vancouver Convention Center. Stop by through April 11th to add your own handwritten note reflecting on what it means to preserve humanity in the Digital Age.

Join us on April 9th for The Soul Cannot Be Simulated, a Discovery Session led by , exploring the difference between our true selves and digital personas.

We hope to see you there!

Tomorrow John Mack, Artist, Author & Founder of Life Calling, will be joining Globant’s Head of AI, JJ Lopez Murphy, for a discussion about the impact of AI on society, and the steps we must take to ensure it remains a force for good amid rapid technological development.

Remember to sign up here to secure your place: https://bit.ly/3BWqlHJ!

Globant
London Tech Week

John Mack is looking forward to joining Globant’s AI leader, JJ Lopez Murphy, at their upcoming AI Minds webinar celebrating London Tech Week on Thursday 15th June!

Together, they will dive into some of the most pressing questions related to the impact of AI and other technologies on humanity: Can AI become sentient? How can we ensure that technological creations empower our humanity rather than threaten it?

Register now to secure your place: https://bit.ly/3BWqlHJ

Globant
London Tech Week

Humanity is currently on a mass-migration from the physical world to the digital world, from the land of nature to the land of virtuality, from human to machine.

One of the most pressing of all our self-imposed existential threats is the digital takeover of human consciousness.

How far along are you in this process?

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No creation can be separate from its creator!
_the painter is in the canvas,
_the photographer revealed in the image, _the individuals form their society,
_ideals set forth the ideology.
There are no two ways about it. And so it is true for AI, for the coder is in the code.

What predictions, if any, can be made about the future of AI, given what we know of its human creators?

Panelists:
Moderator: John Mack, Artist, Author & Founder, Life Calling
Ai-Da, humanoid artist robot
Juan Jose Lopez Murphy, Head of Data Science & AI, Globant
Edgar Meij, Head of AI - Search & Discovery, Bloomberg
Suhair Kahn, Founder, Open/Ended Design

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London Design Biennale
Bloomberg Philanthropies

Join , a leading youth nonprofit on a mission to empower the next generation’s relationship with tech, for a thought-provoking panel discussion on the future of digital wellness.

Panelists:
Livinlikelarz, Digital Wellbeing Pioneer and Founder of Halfthestory
Cloe Westly, Mental Health Campaigner, Speaker & Former Adviser to the Prime Minister
Conor Warren, Spark UK
James Okulaja, Entrepreneur & National Anti-bullying Ambassador

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London Design Biennale
Bloomberg Philanthropies

Education in the Digital Age: The Need for a New Operating System Schooling, as an educational system, is a tool that has been implemented to assist in knowledge-building.

How is it that this technology, so fundamental to human wellbeing and thriving, has gone unchanged over so many years?

The session will open with ‘The Design of A New Paradise’ an introduction from John Mack, Artist, Author & Founder, Life Calling

Panelists
Moderator: John Mack, Artist, Author, Founder, Life Calling
Stella Wing-yan Fong, Head of Learning; the Design Museum
Andy Haldane, CEO of Royal Society of Arts
Lucy Kennedy, Chief Executive of the National Saturday Club
Professor Andrew Przybylski, Professor of Human Behaviour and Technology; Oxford Internet Institute; University of Oxford

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Our books, our moments!
John Mack, artist, author, and founder of Life Calling, is representing the USA Pavilion at the London Design Biennale. Come and visit us!

London Design Biennale

In partnership with Life Calling, and to align with London Tech Week, this event explores our relationship with existing and emerging technologies; the impact on ourselves, on future generations and our ability to meaningfully connect with reality and the natural world.

Hosted by John Mack, Artist, Author & Founder of Life Calling, panel sessions will bring together youth activists, education and technology experts and AiDa the humanoid robot, and will culminate in John’s reflections on how we can preserve our humanity in the Digital Age.

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London Design Biennale

U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Jane D. Hartley met with John Mack, artist, author and founder of Life Calling, a non-profit which works to preserve our humanity in the Digital Age, on the opening morning of the London Design Biennale today, where his interactive exhibition speaks to the rising tide of AI and the replacement of nature by virtuality.

John Mack and Life Calling's exhibition entitled A Species Between Worlds: Our Nature, Our Screens, is the centrepiece of the USA Pavilion endorsed by the U.S. Embassy and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies at the month-long design event at Somerset House, the Strand, London, and contains images taken from across many US National Parks.

Visitors will be immersed in various worlds, where Mack’s real-world images from over 45 US National Parks are juxtaposed with a custom augmented reality (AR) app, showing the growing disconnect between the reality around us and the 'reality' as shown on our smartphones.

Life Calling will also be hosting a thought forum Remapping our Nature in the Digital Age at the Biennale on 13 June convening leaders across academia, arts and culture, business and technology.

U.S. Embassy London
London Design Biennale