Creative Inquiries presents: Zach Blas

Discussions of technology often revolve around a loose notion of a future-orientated “innovation,” with little regard about the nature of those imagined futures. The Creative Inquiries series aims to add a little friction to these sleek ideas about innovative technologies, by providing a platform to discuss the complexities of living in an increasingly technological world. The series showcases experts whose work intersects research methodologies and the creative process and technology. Each featured speaker will deliver a lecture and provide a brief demonstration of their process. Whether they are a research-based creator or a researcher who makes, these speakers do not approach technology as a definitive answer but as a question: How does technology reflect the issues, inequities and injustices in our society and what is there to be done about it?

March 25, 2026 from 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM, at James Branch Cabell Library Lecture Hall, Virginia Commonwealth University.