Technologies Otherwise | Lecture by Gabriel Pereira

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    Lecture by Gabriel Pereira

    Technologies Otherwise | Lectures Series


    On the 23rd of November, join us in the Cinema Room III at Natlab for an exciting lecture by Gabriel Pereira on algorithmic surveillance. This lecture is part of the Technologies Otherwise | Lectures Series program.

    Investment in forms of algorithmic surveillance—from facial recognition in the supermarket to license plate recognition—have skyrocketed over the past decade. The promise is that algorithmic technologies allow for data to be analyzed at an enormous scale, increasing public safety. At the same time, critics have pointed these systems reinforce racism and may lead to increased surveillance of marginalized communities.
     
    This lecture asks: How may we use algorithmic surveillance to look at itself? Gabriel will explore the colonial rise of surveillance systems, and the materiality of these systems in our everyday lives—their images, technologies, and infrastructures. Ultimately, this exercise will help to consider how we could better understand the transformations emerging from the rise of algorithmic surveillance. This reflection will take shape as a live video-essay (a talk with short video segments).

    After the lecture, Gabriel will give a hands-on workshop experimenting with the materiality of algorithmic surveillance cameras. You can either register for one of the two events or both. In case you want to attend both events, we set up a little discount for you.

    COMBO TICKET | Algorithmic surveillance | Lecture & Workshop by Gabriel Pereira

    LECTURE TICKET | Seeing like algorithmic surveillance | Lecture by Gabriel Pereira

    WORKSHOP TICKET | Dissecting algorithmic surveillance | Workshop by Gabriel Pereira

    About Gabriel Pereira
    Gabriel Pereira is Assistant Professor in AI & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), based at the Media Studies department and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC). His research focuses on critical studies of data, algorithms, and digital infrastructures, particularly those of computer vision. His research methods are interdisciplinary and collaborative, including both forms of qualitative research and practice-based inquiry (e.g. artistic interventions and critical making). Projects with Gabriel have been exhibited in venues such as the 33rd Sao Paulo Art Biennial, the Van Abbemuseum, IDFA DocLab, and SUPERCOLLIDER.

    www.gabrielpereira.net


    Tools for Resistance
    In Tools for Resistance, we invite artists and designers to host workshops on resisting the current technological paradigm of designed opacity and planned obsolescence. Within these workshops, we aim to reclaim technology by opening it up, hacking it, training it and exploring open-source software and hardware alternatives.

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