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Michele Elam: How Does AI Do “Race”? (And Why It Matters to Almost Everything)

Online talkTime: 18 November, 17:00 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The talk will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno In the tech industry, it is common practice to situate concerns about AI bias and discrimination under the category of business “risk,” a risk best addressed with technical solutions.  (“Risk” in this context is less an ethical than it is an economic or…

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Magnhild Øen Nordahl & Gabriele de Seta: Replicator Report: Generative AI and physical production

ConversationTime: 18 November, 16:00 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Sksotredet 3The conversation will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno Visual artist Magnhild Øen Nordahl and researcher Gabriele de Seta discuss the relationship between generative AI and physical production. The conversation looks back at the “Replicator Workshop: A practical speculation on generative AI for physical production” convened by Øen Nordahl and de Seta in…

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Jennifer Gabrys: Forests that Compute

Online talkTime: 18 November, 13:30 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The talk will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno Environmental digital technologies are now planetary in scope, monitoring oceans and farms, cities and atmospheres. Remote sensing satellites and in-situ sensors, Lidar and environmental robots are deployed to monitor, manage and transform environments. In this context, forests have also become increasingly digitalised. Digitally…

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Digital Lethargy: Tung-Hui Hu in conversation with Carol Stampone

Conversation  Time: Friday 17 November, 20:30 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The conversation will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno Today’s digital supply chain relies heavily on logistical technologies that coordinate bodies alongside their algorithms or warehouse robots. Digital algorithms turn human workers — pickers, microworkers, content moderators — into abstract objects that circulate, into labour power that can be summoned on…

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The Whole Entire World is Colonised, Only We are Free – Haig Aivazian in conversation with Maria Rusinovskaya

ConversationTime: 17 November, 21:15 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The conversation will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno Fear of night is an ancient phobia, but the urban histories of that fear give some insight into how it was employed in the service of security regimes along class, gender, race, and other lines since the beginning of the 19th century. The conversation…

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: How Are You? Sentiment, Surveillance and Anti-Asian Racism

Online talkTime: Friday 17 November, 18:30 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3The talk will be streamed live at vimeo.com/bekdotno Sentiment analysis entails the widespread surveillance of users’ posts and actions to determine how they feel. This talk outlines the importance of early and mid-20th century studies of women workers and Japanese and Japanese American internees in U.S. WWII internment camps to…

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Open Call: BEK is looking for a participant for the “Replicator Workshop”

BEK has one spot left for an artist, researcher or maker to participate in the “Replicator Workshop: A practical speculation on generative AI for physical production”. The workshop is led by visual artist Magnhild Øen Nordahl and researcher Gabriele de Seta, combining their interests in abstraction and machine learning. It will run for three days (6-8 November 2023) in Bergen…

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