Dear Nettimers, I thought this might be of interest to many of you, so I take the liberty of sending it to the main chanel.
See you in Vienna (or more likely, on the stream) Felix Algorithmic Regimes and Generative Strategies - On Regulatory Politics of Code and Machines *** Time: Friday, September 25 2015 11:00 - 20:00 Location: Kuppelsaal, University of Technology Vienna, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Austria *** A World-Information Institute international conference on the agency of algorithms in culture and society. Algorithms are often presented as guarantors of objectivity, particularly on controversial issues like security or risk assessment. But not even algorithms can achieve the impossible, that is, applying objective logic, precision and transparency to an opaque world full of irreducible ambiguity and subjectivity. The way in which data is generated and processed affects the results. In other words, algorithms and the underlying forms of rationality are biased and so is the world they help to create. This raises pressing questions regarding their methodology, their politics and their efficiency and the need to examine their intended and unintended consequences. The conference will address questions of rationality, governance and, prediction and modelling, but also look at agency of humans and new generative strategies. "Algorithmic Regimes and Generative Strategies" wants to mobilize the critical perspectives of researchers, artists and activists, to open the field for a wider and more diverse debate. TWITTER: #algoregimes LIVESTREAM: world-information.net/algorithmic-regimes/ Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder Conference Editors - With Thomas Sturm, Antoinette Rouvroy, Reinhard Kreissl, Btihaj Ajana, Katja Mayer, Francesca Musiani, Olga Goryunova , Paolo Ruffino, Gerald Raunig and Peter Purgathofer Entry: Free World-Information Institute <world-information.net> in cooperation with the Institute for Design & Assessment of Technology at the Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics. Supported by SHIFT Vienna and BKA Kunst # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
