Student Internship Opportunities with Senior Fellow Oscar Santillán

Find ways to map out and organize the available real-time environmental data

Write a short report on the ecology around the region where Little Fort Island is located

Get in touch with initiatives in the US and Canada advocating for the Rights of Nature in search for a potential collaboration conducive to explore if Little Fort Island could be, eventually, granted personhood

Collaborate with CS intern in some additional tasks such as integrating the environmental data with the neural networks

Post/upload research and progress on an IVM website (which will be launched soon)

Create a coherent dataset mixing texts by artists Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson

Find interesting ways of activating this dataset by means of GPT3 or other language models.

Find the way in which the voices of both artists can be integrated (i.e. by means of VALL-E and/or other software)

Put together the whole pipeline (real-time environmental data > AI > real-time audio)

General Skills: Basic programming, research, database entry, proofing, and copy editing, Adobe Premiere, etc; expected to meet with the Institute fellows via Zoom; to participate in one or two scheduled events related to their April visit to the Colby campus; and to check in with their LIAA and Buck Lab supervisor and Oscar Santillán on a weekly basis via email and through monthly in-person meetings.

Students can apply through Workday, where more information about the responsibilities of these roles can be found, and/or contact keplatt@colby.edu with questions. Applicants are encouraged to apply by Friday, February 24th. Please include a cover letter, resume and names of 1 to 2 references. Decision will be made by March 1st.

Suggested Prerequisite: Jan Plan Course with Oscar Santillán.