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Inside the frame of a mobile phone screen, a woman is depicted walking and looking over her shoulder. Behind her, there is an outdoor scene with the sky, tree, fences, and pavement. A hand is shown grabbing the phone and tapping the record button. On the left side of the phone, a small portion of the same sky, fences, and pavement is displayed in a different scale, representing the world outside the screen. On the right side of the phone, three figures of the same woman are shown against a plain blue background, progressively transforming from minimally glitched to heavily glitched.

Telling Tales - Reihaneh Golpayegani

The black and white image shows a high shot of the tops of a city scene. At eye level are the tops of the tall buildings on either side of the street, in the middle of the image, it tunnels down to the road below. The street is fairly empty, but cascading down from the sky are pixels which look like a QR code pattern – almost like these represent the clouds.

Glitch Binary Abyss II - Elise Racine & The Bigger Picture

The left side incorporates a digital interface, showing code snippets, search queries, and comments referencing Woolf’s ideas, including discussions about Shakespeare’s fictional sister, Judith. The overlay of coding elements highlights modern interpretations of Woolf’s work through the lens of data and AI.

The center depicts a dimly lit, minimalist room with a window, desk, and wooden floors and cupboards. The right side features a collage of Cambridge landmarks, historical photographs of women, and a black and white figure in Edwardian attire. There is a map of Cambridge in the background, which is overlayed with images of old fountain pens and ink, books, and a handwritten letter.

Women and AI - Reihaneh Golpayegani & Cambridge Diversity Fund

The image features a silver meat grinder. Going into the grinder at the top are various culturally symbolic, historical, and fun icons – such as emojis, old statutes, a computer, newspapers, an aeroplane. At the other end of the meat grinder, coming out is a sea of blue and grey icons representing chat bot responses like 'Let me know if this aligns with your vision' in a grey chat bot message symbol.

Ground Up and Spat Out - Janet Turra & Cambridge Diversity Fund

A detailed digital collage inspired by the aesthetic of medieval manuscript illustrations, depicts a vibrant scene of construction workers building a structure. The traditional elements, such as figures in traditional Persian gowns, wooden ladders, ropes, and woven sacks, are interwoven with modern technological motifs like circuit boards, QR codes, and cloud icons. Bright, glowing, golden networks of interconnected nodes and symbols of digital technology overlay the scene, blending the past and present. On the left, Arabic calligraphy is imprinted onto the paper. The composition uses contrasting textures and colours to juxtapose and interweave the themes and eras.

Who is AI Made Of - Shady Sharify

The black and white image shows a city scene with a large sky scraper in the middle. Embedded on the large tower building is a QR code pattern in white. In the paved road leading to the block is also a QR code like pattern. The street is fairly empty in the city with a few trees lining the side walks. The shot is taken from a low angle, so it as if the user is looking up to the tower block building.

Glitch Binary Abyss I - Elise Racine & The Bigger Picture

This image shows a large white, traditional, old building. The top half of the building represents the humanities (which is symbolised by the embedded text from classic literature which is faintly shown ontop the building). The bottom section of the building is embossed with mathematical formulas to represent the sciences. The middle layer of the image is heavily pixelated. On the steps at the front of the building there is a group of scholars, wearing formal suits and tie attire, who are standing around at the enternace talking and some of them are sitting on the steps. There are two stone, statute-like hands that are stretching the building apart from the left side.

In the forefront of the image, there are 8 students - which can only be seen from the back. Their graduation gowns have bright blue hoods and they all look as though they are walking towards the old building which is in the background at a distance. There are a mix of students in the foreground.

The Two Cultures - Zoya Yasmine

Joining the Table - Yutong Liu

Three cartoon-style people of similar stature (one instructor and two students) are seated around a circular table. The instructor is wearing a dress shirt with a nametag and is a wheelchair user. The students are wearing a t-shirt and a jumper respectively and are not wheelchair users. A speech bubble appears above the instructor's head to depict the collection of biomedical data from an individual that is then inputted into an AI algorithm to predict long-term cardiovascular disease risk (denoted here by the icon of a broken heart).

prediction - Yaning Wu

A collage featuring a vintage illustration of a woman’s head mapped with labeled sections resembling a phrenology chart. The mapped sections are overlaid by a neutral network diagram– depicting crisscrossing black lines. Two anonymous hands extend from the left side, pulling on two wires from the diagram. In the background is a panel of the Turing Machine with numerous knobs and switches, highlighting a connection between the history of computing, psychology, biology, and artificial intelligence.

Turning Threads of Cognition - Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund

A black-and-white image depicting the early computer, Bombe Machine, during World War II. In the foreground, the shadow of a woman in vintage clothing is cast on a man changing the machine's cable.

Shadow Work– Decrypting Bletchley Park’s Codebreakers - Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund

A woman sits atop a computer console from the 1950s in a vintage computer lab. One window possesses columns from Nevile’s Court at Trinity University at Cambridge University, and the other window depicts six potted flowers and sunlight. The background is black and white, and the image of the woman and the sunny window are warm tones.

Pas(t)imes in the Computer Lab - Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund

A computer lab with three rows of four desks, each occupied by students working at computers. Overlaying the computer lab are red lines connecting through nodes, symbolizing the flow of communication, data exchange, and interconnected networks.

Data Lab Dialogue - Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund

A black-and-white surrealist collage of a classroom lecture. The center features an oversized computer keyboard with the two keys “A” and “I” highlighted in red. In the foreground, a vintage illustration of a woman in historical attire kneels as she interacts with the keyboard. Behind her, an audience of Cambridge students are seated in rows observing the lecture.

Analog Lecture on Computing - Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund

A pixelated black-and-white portrait of Ada Lovelace where the arrangement of pixels forms intricate borders and repeating patterns. These designs resemble the structure and layout of GPU microchip circuits, blending her historical contributions with modern computational technology.

Lovelace GPU - Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund

An anonymous figure examines handwritten notes overlaid with a blue light projection resembling a virtual reality interface. The projection brings the notes to life, highlighting details such as a reference to the intricate ceiling of King’s College Chapel and a diagram of a man encircled by a series of numbers, blending historical imagery with futuristic technology.

Puppeteering Virtual Reality - Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund

A historical-style painting of a young woman stands before the Colossus computer. She holds an abstract basket filled with vibrant, pastel circles representing data points. The basket is attached to the computer through a network of connecting wires, symbolizing the flow and processing of information.

Colossal Harvest - Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund

Repeating image of four skulls with increasing doubling, blurring, ghosting, pixelation, and horizontal glitching.

Corruption 3 - Kathryn Conrad

Repeating image of four skulls with increasing doubling, blurring, ghosting, and pixelation

Corruption 2 - Kathryn Conrad

Repeating image of skulls with increasing doubling, blurring, ghosting, pixelation, and horizontal glitching

Corruption 1 - Kathryn Conrad

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