The Feminist AI lecture series, launched as part of the Ars Electronica Festival in 2023, returns this year with two talks on how technological change—from data practices to AI—is transforming working conditions.
Fernando Velázquez – Squeezing the Echoes of the Dataset: Art and AI in Latin America.
This talk reflects on how artists in Latin America engage with an imposed technology that erases local specificities, pressing against its constraints to imagine other ways of seeing, sensing, and creating.
Julia Kloiber – Inside AI’s Engine Room.
Behind AI lies one of the largest forms of human and environmental exploitation of the 21st century. But what does it really look like at the far end of the AI supply chain, where an invisible workforce of thousands of people spend their days? Who are they? What were their hopes when they started these jobs, and how quickly were they confronted with a harsher reality? The stories of these workers cut through the glossy AI narratives.
This talk takes you inside the world of data annotation and content moderation, where workers in Europe and Africa keep AI and social media running, and sheds light on how they are beginning to organize, demand change, and put forward alternatives.
