Welcome to the sixth webinar in our Digital Cultures series, AI and Bias. Feminist + Queer Perspectives. Panellists, artists' Caroline Campbell - Loitering Theatre, Coral Manton - Women Reclaiming AI join Artist, Elaine Hoey.
Brief Seminar Outline
The historical data we use to train Artificial Intelligence or Machine learning technologies continue to reflect biases that many of us would have hoped to relegate to the past, including bias towards gender and race. From racial profiling to gender and class bias, AI systems can reflect back and further entrench inherent problems within our society. How can the female perspective begin to challenge and question these norms?
Caroline Campbell is an artist, writer and filmmaker working under the name Loitering Theatre (both as a solo artist and with other collaborators). Loitering Theatre work across video, text, mixed message, false flags, meme magic, artificial intellect, viral interference and future archaeologies of time. Loitering Theatre has most recently presented work at Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Galway (2020), Hugh Lane Gallery, as part of Digital Self Defence, curated by Kennedy Browne; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and Solstice Gallery (all 2019) Caroline is a practice-based PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Department of Visual Cultures. www.loiteringtheatre.org
Coral Manton is an artist-technologist and game developer. She is Lecturer in Creative Computing at Bath Spa University and Course Leader for BA Hons Games Development. Her interests include XR, playable media, digital heritage and design activism. She has worked in AAA and Indie gaming and is a qualified museum curator specialising in interactive and digital collections research. She is a live-coder and has performed at Algoraves across the UK and internationally. She performed and curated an Algorave which saw 800 people dancing to algorithms in the iconic British Library in London as part of the ‘Staying Late at Library’ programme. She is an advocate for women in technology and much of her work is focused on creating better relationships between technology and people. She is Co-Founder of Women Reclaiming AI. A conversational AI feminist voice assistant which is being co-developed by a growing community of 100+ Women. She spoke at ITU, a United Nations Conference, on Gender and AI. Coral’s work has been featured in Ars Electronica, SXSW, The Guardian Newspaper and she has led workshops at The Barbican for AI: More than Human and MozFest.
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Image: © Women Reclaiming AI, artist Coral Manton.
