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
Black Method / Curiosity & Wonder
Tickets: https://perdu.nl/nl/r/black-method-curiosity-and-wonder/
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Livestream: https://vimeo.com/636287972
livestream password: fjdisi43
Date: Thursday October 21st
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Location: Perdu (Kloveniersburgwal 86, 1012 CZ Amsterdam)
“Thinking, writing and imagining across a range of texts, disciplines, histories, and genres unsettles suffocating and dismal and insular racial logics.”
-Katherine McKittrick
In this lecture, Katherine McKittrick, professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, will trace the historical-spatial incompatibility between algorithmic logic and black life. She will share how self-replicating knowledge systems create hierarchy from difference, revealing how certain arrangements, situations, and bodies are measured and abstracted from their layered context. In Dear Science and Other Stories (Duke University Press, 2021), McKittrick brings us back to this layering. She extends an invitation to complicate the numbers which arise, by drawing upon narratives which weave together “the song, the groove, the poem, the novel, the painting, the sculpture…”
Katherine McKittrick is a professor in Gender Studies at Queen's University. She is an academic and writer whose work focuses on black studies, cultural geography, anti-colonial and diaspora studies, with an emphasis on the ways in which liberation emerges in black creative texts (music, fiction, poetry, visual art).
