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DESCRIPTION:Critical Design Investigating AI\, Caroline Sanders on the Femi
 nist Data Set and CAre B0t\n\nThis is a free\, virtual event with professi
 onal live captions\, open to the public. Please register through Eventbrit
 e.\n\nThis talk explores how usefulness is a necessary metaphor for design
  and art to critique technology\, create spaces of provocation and activis
 m. Within this talk\, I will be expanding up usefulness\, critical design 
 and art\, and focusing on two projects that embody this\, Feminist Data Se
 t and CAre B0t.\n\nThis talk will also dive into theories and inspiration 
 behind rsearch drive art. Usefulness\, and interdisciplinary work are key 
 and necessary parts of a research driven arts practice\, and it is directl
 y\, extremely inspired by Tania Brugerua’s arte util methodology\, which m
 eans utilitarian art. Arte Útil draws on artistic thinking to imagine\, cr
 eate and implement tactics that change how we act in society\, again heavi
 ly focused on usefulness\, on tool building\, and on communities. Critic a
 nd Curator Nora Khan highlights the strengths of work stretching across do
 mains\, making art a necessary trojan horse to discuss useful change. Rese
 arch driven art\, embodying activism and or utilitarianism are artists and
  practices such as American Artist\, Francis Tseng\, Joanna Moll\, Adam Ha
 rvey\, Mimi Onuoha\, Forensic Architecture and others. Artistic research p
 ractices don't exist just to bear witness\, though that alone would be wor
 thwhile\; they question\, provocate and offer a solution to a problem. Thi
 s should not be viewed as a form of techno-solutionism however\; the ‘solu
 tions’ the artists provide are not meant to create an end to all other pot
 ential solutions\, but serve to offer rather\, temporary or open-source fi
 xes for gaps in equity and violence created by society and thus are poetic
  witnesses of those gaps.\n\nCaroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design
  researcher and artist. For the past few years\, she has been examining th
 e intersections of technology’s impact in society\, interface design\, art
 ificial intelligence\, abuse\, and politics in digital\, conversational sp
 aces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research\, an agency 
 focusing on the intersections of machine learning\, user research\, design
 ing for public good\, and solving difficult communication problems. As a d
 esigner and researcher\, she has worked with Amnesty International\, Intel
 \, IBM Watson\, the Wikimedia Foundation\, and others.\n\nSinders has held
  fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School\, the Mozilla Foundation\, Ye
 rba Buena Center for the Arts\, Eyebeam\, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry\, an
 d the International Center of Photography. Her work has been supported by 
 the Ford Foundation\, Omidyar Network\, the Open Technology Fund and the K
 night Foundation. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate 
 Modern\, Victoria and Albert Museum\, MoMA PS1\, LABoral\, Ars Electronica
 \, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft\, Slate\, Quartz\, Wired\, as
  well as others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University’s Intera
 ctive Telecommunications Program.\n\nThis event is part of the 2nd Season 
 of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies 
 Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingan
 dtechnology.com)\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. This series was made pos
 sible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC (and the Initiative for Digital Citize
 n Research)\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies 
 (IGSF)\, Milieux\, Initiative for Indigenous Futures\, Algorithmic Media O
 bservatory\, MILA\, Cinema Politics\, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Department of History and C
 lassical Studies\, Black Feminist Futures Working Group\, the Sustainabili
 ty Projects Fund\, Moving Image Research Laboratory\, The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Writing C
 entre\, MUTEK IMG\, the Intersectionality Research Hub\, and Machine Agenc
 ies.\n\nThere is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide liv
 e professional captions. The event will be recorded and the video will be 
 made available on our website a few days after the event.\n
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SUMMARY:Feminist Data Set and CAre B0t with Caroline Sinders
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