Introduction by Lars Bang Larsen
Session: Escaping Algorithms. Anna Lena Schiller and Grow Sarauw
Discussion: Anna Lena Schiller and Gro Sarauw with Lotte Løvholm as respondent
Artistic intervention by Biarritzzz
Session: Breaking Open the Black Box. The Algorithmic Theater
Discussion: The Algorithmic Theater. Q&A with the audience
Artistic intervention by CUSS Group, represented by Ravi Govender
“Who controls the algorithm controls the truth”, a presentation by Katrine K. Pedersen
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism – presentation by Dr Safiya Noble
THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
symposium
Dr. Safiya Noble: Q &A with Katrine K. Pedersen and audience
As screen-based, networked digital technologies are seemingly a precondition for participation in contemporary everyday life, algorithms have become highly agentic semi-presences that massage our psyches, subjectivities and social systems.
After the keynote talk given by Dr. Safiya Noble, online from California, she had a conversation with Katrine K. Pedersen regarding her book, Algorithms of Oppression, and how to raise public consciousness of the danger of digital domination, before answering questions from the audience.
This symposium, The Digital Divide, in three parts pushes algorithms into plain sight and considers their production and use as political acts, raising questions about claims to infrastructural neutrality, and highlighting programmed bias and resulting social injustice.
THE DIGITAL DIVIDE symposium was the launching event of the series of programs of the 2-year Creative Europe project ATTENTION AFTER TECHNOLOGY, a cross-border collaboration between Kunsthall Trondheim (@kunsthalltrondheim), Art Hub Copenhagen (@art_hub_copenhagen), Tropical Papers (@tropicalpapers_), State of Concept Athens (@stateofconceptathens) and Swiss Institute (@swissinstitute), funded by the European Union.