BOTS: Tracking Systems of Control Location: Somerset House, New Wing, London, UK. Schedule: 15th of April (1pm-5pm). Admission: £7 / £5. Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/bots
Seventh event of the Disruption Network Lab, directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli, Conference developed in partnership with Abandon Normal Devices (AND, andfestival.org.uk) alongside "The Art of Bots" programme, taking place at Somerset House on 15 and 16 April 2016, London, UK (www.andfestival.org.uk/events/art-of-bots-london). Tickets: http://www.andfestival.org.uk/events/disruption-network-lab-bots/ Speakers: Cian Westmoreland (U.S. Air Force whistleblower, Project Red Hand, USA), Vladan Joler (Director of the SHARE Foundation, Associate Professor and Chair of New Media Department at the University of Novi Sad, RS), Joana Moll (artist and researcher, ES), Richard Tynan (Technologist, Privacy International, UK), Carmen Weisskopf (!Mediengruppe Bitnik, CH). Moderators: Marc Garrett (co-founder of Furtherfield, UK) and Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director of the Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). "The diffusion of responsibility is the nature of modern warfare" (C. Westmoreland) "BOTS: Tracking Systems of Control" focuses on the dark side of bots usage, on the issues of surveillance, tracking and whistleblowing. The event aims to expand the definition of bots by interconnecting systems of control that are based on a high degree of automatism and diffused of responsibility. By bringing together whistleblowers, technologists, activists, researchers and artists the purpose is to analyse systems that perform automated functions, on a human and technological level. At the core of the discussion are network centric aerial warfare, online tracking, and pervasive invisible surveillance infrastructures. From one side, we want to encourage a deeper understanding of global aerial network systems coordinated over large distances, and question the ethical and legal responsibility in the nature of modern warfare; from the other side, we want to investigate the functionality and inner mechanisms of bulk metadata collection, and virtual surveillance technologies manufactured to acquire and process behavioural patterns. A conscious resistance against tracking and pervasive surveillance will be encouraged, allowing a greater understanding of network centric systems and imagining possible alternatives. More Information: Disruption Network Lab (http://www.disruptionlab.org) Abandon Normal Devices (AND, andfestival.org.uk) Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director and Curator) tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Credits: This Disruption Network Lab event is curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli in collaboration with Abandon Normal Devices for The Art of Bots. The event is delivered in partnership with Somerset House and media partners Furtherfield. It is realised with support of Aksioma (SI) in the framework of Masters & Servers. Masters and Servers is a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), Abandon Normal Devices (UK), Link Art Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES). This project has been funded with support from the European Commission and the Arts Council England. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
