Women reclaiming AI

Birgitte Aga (NO), Coral Manton (UK)

Sat Sep 7, 2019, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
All times are given in Central European Summer Time (CEST / UTC +2).
POSTCITY, First Floor, AIxMusic Workshop Space
This workshop is free and open to all women (trans, intersex and cis) and all nonbinary, agender and gender variant people.
No previous experience of coding is required but participants are asked to bring their own laptops and headphones.

Women Reclaiming AI invites you to take part in a workshop designing an alternative AI Voice Assistant created by a growing community of self-identifying women (trans, intersex and cis) and all nonbinary, agender and gender variant people.

 

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Biographies:

Birgitte Aga (NO) & Coral Manton (UK)
The work of artist-technologist duo Birgitte Aga and Coral Manton manifests as collaborative workshops, events and installations aimed at(re)claiming conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems as a medium for protest. It critiques the commercial pursuit of humanising AI technologies and challenges the bias, stereotyping and pervasive influence embedded within. By activating the public, Aga and Manton re-write and re-imagine the cultural myths of AI and robotics, creating alternative technology-mediated futures.
Their most recent work is Women Reclaiming Ai (2019), an expanding activist art-work, presented as a feminist AI voice assistant, programmed through workshops by a growing community of self-identifying women, and The Infinite Guide (2018), a speculative art work and research project, powered by a conversational AI, (LSTM Recurrent Neural Net), trained on a biased and non-diverse data-set.
https://birgitteaga.com/
https://coralmanton.com/