Category: Season 6
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Tiziano Bonini & Emiliano Treré: The Emergence of Algorithmic Solidarity
Algorithms increasingly shape our lives across a variety of social domains, including politics, culture, financial systems, and labour. In this talk, based on a forthcoming book with MIT Press, the authors zoom in on how algorithmic systems govern the work of gig workers – and particularly riders – in different countries around the world. Professor…
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Felix Stalder: NFTs and Blockchain Culture
Felix Stalder, a professor of Digital Culture at the Zurich University of the Arts, Geraldine Juarez, a Mexican-Swedish artist and writer, and Andrea Baronchelli, an associate professor in Mathematics at University of London, discuss NFTs and blockchain culture which emerged around the non-fungible tokens. In the early days, blockchains held the promise to transform monetary…
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Valentina Tanni: Memesthetics
Memesthetics: The Digital Image as a Network Valentina Tanni, contemporary art historian and lecturer who primarily studies the relationship between art and technology with a focus on internet culture, reflects on the world of digital images. Digital files, regardless of the content they convey, are fundamentally unstable. During their journey on the internet, they can…