Workshop

Hosted by the Feminist AI Network, this Workshop will be part of the Conference Technological Futures Now at CST.

Neda Atanasoski will present the new book she edited together with Nassim Parvin: "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen". From the book description:
New and emerging technologies, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces, relations, homes, and bodies, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen Neda Atanasoski and
Nassim Parvin introduce a feminist theory of creep that they substantiate through critical engagement with smart homes, smart dust, smart desires, and smart forests toward dreams of feminist futures. Considering diverse technologies such as border surveillance and China’s credit system to sexcams and home assistants, the volume’s essays and artworks - including contributing authors - demonstrate that the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and digital and robotic technologies cannot be assessed through binaries of seeing/ being seen, privacy/surveillance, or harmful/useful. Together, their multifaceted and multimodal approach transcends such binaries, accounting for technological relations that exceed sight to include touch, presence, trust, and diverse modes of collectivity. As such, this volume develops creep as a feminist analytic and creative mode on par with technology’s complex entanglement with intimate, local, and global politics.

This workshop will be hosted by the Feminist AI Network as part of the Conference Technological Futures Now.

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Schedule

10.00 am - Welcome, Coffee, and Speed Networking

10.30 am - Input and Discussion by Neda Atanasoski

12.00 pm - Networking Lunch