Recipes for a Technological Undoing invites students to work across disciplines to generate new understandings of how artists and designers can combat techno-determinism. We seek to unravel the assumption that technological progress in the way it has manifested was inevitable and will continue to be so. Undoing the structures that seek to quantify, rank, capture, and predict our endless ways of being.
The technologies we wish to undo are those that claim to predict social outcomes, those that perpetuate a hierarchy or preference based on race, gender, sexuality, or physical ability. In the lectures, we will learn how these preferences are encoded in the technologies themselves. And build away from a history of science that centers a white, Western epistemology.
We will learn how the disciplining of knowledge - the separation of the arts and humanities from the sciences - enables automated bias.
We will (physically) meet weekly on Thursday afternoons, usually between 16:00 and 18:00
ENROLL
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DELIVERY
We will learn from guest lecturers of multi-hyphenated practices. Visionaries who will help stretch our understanding of what is possible. Prioritizing voices of those who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
GUEST LECTURERS
Katherine McKittrick
Abeba Birhane
Ariana Dongus
Ramon Amaro
WORKSHOPS
To be announced
DISCUSSIONS
The discussion sessions are moments for us to come together as a class to connect and reflect. Bringing our own urgencies into discussion and sharing any new insights with the group.
MAILING LIST
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A visit to the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam, followed by a conversation between Evie Evans and Flavia Dzodan.
Black Method / Curiosity & Wonder
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16:00-18:00
Ladipo Famodu
Lauren Napoles Gonzalez Fong
Alec Mateo
Flavia Dzodan
2021
BA & MA students
A visit to the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam, followed by a conversation between Evie Evans and Flavia Dzodan.
Evie Evans is part of the Action Research & Production Team at Framer Framed. Her Master’s thesis Cultivating Colonialism, analyses botanical gardens from a museological perspective. Because museums and botanical gardens have shown us ways of organising, categorising and defining an unknown world from colonial times to the present, plants in botanical gardens are subject to similar processes of musealisation and decolonial critique as objects within a museum.
Flavia Dzodan is a writer, media analyst and cultural critic based in Amsterdam. She is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Sandberg Instituut. Her research is focused on the politics of Artificial Intelligence and algorithms at the intersections of colonialism, race and gender. She has written extensively on “the coloniality of the algorithm”, situating Linnaean taxonomies at the heart of both colonial history and our contemporary uses of technology.
