Technologies Otherwise | Workshop by Gabriel Pereira

  • Dissecting algorithmic surveillance 

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    Workshop by Gabriel Pereira

    Technologies Otherwise | Tools for Resistance


    On the 23rd of November, join us at Natlab for an exciting workshop by Gabriel Pereira on algorithmic surveillance. This workshop is part of the Technologies Otherwise | Tools for Resistance program.
     

    In this workshop, we will collectively experiment with the materiality of algorithmic surveillance cameras. We will focus on two technologies: facial recognition and automated license plate recognition (ALPR). These cameras will be dissected (both literally and metaphorically) in order to engage with their infrastructural inner-workings. We will experiment in practice how these cameras see us and our surroundings by actually recording videos with them. How are these ways of seeing different than our own? This exploration opens space to consider: What kinds of stories can we tell about these systems through their materiality? This experimentation will help us cultivate more critical paradigms on the role and impact of algorithmic surveillance technologies in society.

    Before of the workshop, we also invite you to join Gabriel in a lecture in order to get a better understanding of the transformations emerging from the rise of algorithmic surveillance. 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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