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Tiziana Terranova: On Feminism After the Internet
The end or extinction of the Internet and the massive expansion of platforms has been accompanied for many by a loss of the emancipatory potential of digital connectivity and by an overall degradation of the quality of political communication. While platforms as control technologies are no simple tools of emancipation, however, digital communication is far…
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Haig Aivazian: World/AntiWorld
World/AntiWorld grapples with the ways in which our selves are collectively and individually constituted and de-constituted by the intersecting gazes of law, capital and machines. Structured around the three explosions that occurred at the Stade de France in November 2015, the narrative of this perofrmance takes on the history and futures of surveillance technologies and the…
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Dr. Francesca Sobande: Black Digital Currents
In this talk Francesca Sobande (Cardiff University) considers gendered and racialized currents of digital culture and technology. Focusing on different dimensions of digital delights and disturbances, Sobande explores experiences of digital creativity and collaborations related to Black life in Scotland, Wales, and beyond.
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Ameera Kawash: Can an AI Truly be Decolonized?
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly weaponized against marginalized communities, deepening the digital divide and perpetuating biases and dehumanization. For Palestinians, AI image generators reinforce harmful stereotypes, erase cultural histories, and normalize the violence of the genocide. Featuring the work of Palestinian-Iraqi American artist Ameera Kawash, this talk explores whether AI and other networked technologies can help…
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dmstfctn & Evita Manji: Kill the Luigi in Your Head
This lecture provides an overview of dmstfctn’s artistic practice, focusing on their exploration of opaque systems of power through a mix of performance, installation, video games, and film. By blending these multimedia forms, dmstfctn invites audiences to engage in the “demystification” of these systems through replication and re-enactment, and in their “remystification” by constructing new…
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Vladan Joler: Critical Cartography of Technology Power Across Space and Time
What is Critical Cartography? Critical cartography is one of the possible methods to examine, explore, and think about the relations between technology and power. Not just to document and visualize those relations but also as a toolbox that can enable us to rethink underlying concepts and meanings. Calculating Empires, an artwork produced in collaboration with…
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Charles Muede: What if AI Became Less Racist Than its Masters?
What if AI Became Less Racist Than its Masters? This talk presents the idea of Al exceeding human limitations. Would the realization of this kind of Al be permitted? An Al that doesn’t reproduce the social forms, particularly those associated with racism, that have concentrated so much power and wealth in a few hands? “Clear”…
