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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”…
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Eduardo ‘Teddy’ Williams: El Auge Del Humano 3 Film Screening
The Human Surge 3 The Human Surge 3 explores the young generation’s climate anxieties through an overstimulating technique fit for the digital age. An experimental and decolonial odyssey that bends the world with a 360-degree camera, the film slips between Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Peru, blurring them into one gloomy jungle where murmurs of Tamil,…
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Ukraina TV: The Art of ‘War’ Streaming
Biography UKRAiNATV is an experimental, collective, and cross-sectoral project in the field of media culture. It deals with new relational strategies and new HYBRiD production forms in the field of hybrid PRESENCE. It’s an Internet TV station specialized in building live audiovisual bridges, a multi-channel streaming hub, a recording studio, and a glocal network, all…
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Anna Englehardt and Mark Cinkevich: Fear of the Wrong Image
The New Politics of Evidence Recent debates on the dangers of synthetic media are gripped by the fear that an image might lose its value as evidence. We find comfort in trusting what we see. Tracing the production of images from military simulations to technical interfaces, can we identify what a synthetic image puts at…
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Milagros Miceli: There’s No Ethical ‘AI’ Without Ethical Data Work
Note from the Scholar Over the past decade, considerable research and industry efforts have focused on addressing biases and minimizing personal subjectivities in data collection, curation, classification, and labeling by data workers. In this talk, I propose a shift of perspective to explore power imbalances inherent in data work that significantly shape datasets and systems….
