Dear friends, dear colleagues
it is my pleasure to invite you all to join us for thetwo (online)
events that celebrate the ERC-funded DATACTIVE (data-activism.net)
research project, which since 2015 has been exploring the relation
between citizens and the datafied society broadly defined.
On June 29, 1-5.30pm we will reflect on “Data Activism Futures”, in
collaboration with the DATACTIVE team: Niels ten Oever, Becky Kazansky,
Guillen Torres, Davide Beraldo and Lonneke van der Velden, as well as a
number of other cool colleagues (including Maxigas and Fieke Jansen).
On June 30, 5-6.30pm we will instead explore “Art as data activism”,
with the help of a number of cool artists of the likes of Many Luksch,
Joana Moll, Karla Zavala and Adriaan Odendaal.
See more and sign up
athttps://data-activism.net/2021/06/june-29-30-datactive-final-event/
.
More info is available below.
A good portion of the event has been professionally produced in a fancy
tv studio—so we promise a slightly better and more colorful experience
than your regular zoom😉
Hope to see you there! Best, Stefania
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Stefania Milan(she/her)
Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of
Amsterdam | https://stefaniamilan.net
Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard
University
Principal Investigator, DATACTIVE (ERC Starting Grant 639379) |
https://data-activism.net
Project Leader, Citizenship and standard-setting in digital networks
(IN-SIGHT) (NWO Responsible Innovation Grant MVI.19.032) |
https://in-sight.it
Co-Principal Investigator, e-LADDA (MSCA 857897) | https://e-ladda.eu
@annliffey | @data_ctive| @bigdatasur
+31627875425 | +31(0)205252416
Fingerprint: 5A7B 6330 5684 FC39 3DC0 67D7 08B3 50AE 6AF5 1B63
We are nearing the end of the ERC-funded DATACTIVE project and we have
many accomplishments to celebrate!
For almost six years now, we have worked together to investigate the
complex and multifaceted field of data activist imaginaries and
practices. We have had a wonderful time bringing together
academics, practitioners, hackers and artists from around the world. We
have engaged in numerous interviews, focus groups, participant
observation of activist events, and we have even developed our own
open-source tools to support our research. Together, we have traced the
evolution of a global network of data activists and tried to figure out
how institutions are reacting to their mobilization. We have explored
the various ways in which publics engage with surveillance regimes and
how notions of risk articulate strategies to resist it. We have shed
light on the workings of the algorithms that power big tech platforms
and located how human rights considerations painstakingly make their way
into the infrastructure of the internet. With the inception of the
COVID-19 pandemic, we have also devoted our attention to the politics of
counting in the first pandemic in a datafied society, the inherent forms
of exclusion and the risks of techno-solutionism.
Throughout these six years, the 'we' of DATACTIVE has been neither
static nor stable. DATACTIVE has been home to no less than 26 people in
its core team, plus the many other research associates, interns, and
collaborators who visited for period of time and enriched our work with
their expertise and unique contributions.
Although the project is coming to an end, we are well aware that our
work is not done. We will take our data-activist approach to research to
other venues and groups, and continue asking critical questions wherever
we will land.
But it is now time for thanks and celebrations! Please join us on
Tuesday the 29th of June 2021 (13.00-17.30 CEST)*for the DATACTIVE
closing event entitled DATA ACTIVISM FUTURES*, to celebrate looking
back and ponder about the future. We have our Principal Investigator
Stefania Milan reflecting on five years of data activism, after which
the PhD candidates will take central stage. Becky Kazansky will shed
light on threat modelling within civil society and grassroots resistance
to surveillance, Guillén Torres will present his work on institutional
resistance to transparency efforts by citizens, and Niels ten Oever will
take us through the politics of infrastructure. Guest speakers include
Maxigas (University of Amsterdam), Fieke Jansen (Data Justice Lab,
Cardiff University), Claudio Agosti (Algorithms Exposed), and Svitlana
Matviyenko (Digital Democracies Institute). Davide Beraldo will engage
in a discussion with artists Joana Moll, Manu Luksch, Karla Zavala and
Adriaan Odenzaal about how art can contribute to the data activism
agenda by fostering critical data literacy
The DATACTIVE final event will be followed by a public roundtable
discussion on ART AS DATA ACTIVISM scheduled on the next day,
Wednesday the 30th of June 2021 (17.00-18.30 CEST). Note that each
event has its own separate registration process.
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