We have the pleasure to invite you to a conference discussing how new optical media and computer programs are coding the Gaze and reinforce social inequalities.

Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pariska 14, Belgrade

4 – 5 november

The conference starts at 10 a.m. and lasts until 4 p.m.

Participants: Annet Dekker (University of Amsterdam), Selena Savić (University of Amsterdam), Steph Maj Swanson (artist, Sweden), Hinda Haned (Owls & Arrows, Amsterdam), Jelena Guga (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade), Darija Medić (University of Colorado Boulder), Computational Mama (Ajaibghar, India), Zorica Đergović-Joksimović (Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad), Uroš Krčadinac (Faculty for Media and Communications, Belgrade) and Anica Tucakov (magazine [O]GLED, Belgrade).

Please find attached Conference programme here.

Man is prone to prejudice. But artificial intelligence systems reinforce those prejudices even more. At the same time, it seems that biases are embedded in the technology of optical media itself, erasing not just humans and human dignity, but the nature as well.

The central theme of this Conference is therefore to explore the “Code of the Gaze” which uses new optical media and computer programmes, to discuss the (re)construction of women’s identity in the context of the new technologies, and to recognise and defy the transmission and multiplication of the inequalities and prejudices that existed and still exist in society, and which are taking on new, exponential forms in the dominant forms of high tech communication.

To raise society’s awareness of the existence of gender, class and other prejudices in AI, communication strategies are of crucial importance, as well as informing the public about the foundations on which the systems and logic of AI are based. That’s why in this conference we are aiming at dealing with communication strategies, including artistic strategies, which highlight the importance of these issues, and possible directions for their future regulation and resolution.

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Conference is organized by NGO “anonymous said:” and (O)GLED magazine. Conference is supported by the Government of Switzerland, within the “Culture for Democracy” program, which is implemented by the Heartefact Fund, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, the Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade and the Embassy of Sweden in Belgrade.

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