Abstract der Keynote:
The pervasiveness of Information Technology (IT), notably the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), presents many challenges to matters of fairness, equity, and social justice. Bias and discrimination in AI undermines a fair treatment, especially of marginalized groups. Furthermore, the concentration of power and decision-making within large tech conglomerates, coupled with the current workings of the data-driven economy, diminishes public accountability. Disparities in access to technology compound existing socioeconomic inequalities, limiting societal participation for certain groups. Aligning technological development processes with democratic values and social justice principles calls for a systemic sociotechnical approach. In my talk, I will present examples from my research group's current work and discuss questions of fairness, participation and design interventions through the lens of Donna Haraway's concept of response-ability.

Kurzbiografie:
Claude Draude ist Professorin für Partizipative IT-Gestaltung am Fachbereich Elektrotechnik/Informatik und professorales Zweitmitglied am Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften der Universität Kassel. Ihre Arbeit ist geprägt von einem multidisziplinären akademischen Hintergrund in Medienwissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaft und Soziologie sowie ihrer langjährigen Forschungserfahrung in der Informatik. Wie die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften zu einer IT-Gestaltung beitragen können, die soziale Gerechtigkeit und Inklusion fördert, steht im Zentrum ihrer Forschung.

Abstract der Keynote:
How is AI impacting, generating and co-writing gender identity and representation? This talk argues that AI - like many technologies before it - participates in structuring and naturalizing normative and binary identity constructions through a recurring mythoi of data as accurate, objective, and producing certainties. In particular with regards to gender, but also race and ethnicity, these categories of identification are weaponized and made binary, determinate, mutually exclusive. More importantly, AI produces antiquated imaginaries of identity and seperability, which are naturalized through new technology’s framing as objective and apolitical, even as it is posited as potentially conscious. Instead of opting for a complete rejection of emerging technology, I argue that what might be needed is a reformulation of the data narrative, a proposition I explore through the concept of “Uncertain Intelligences”. Within the uncertainty paradigm, I focus on artistic production in the service of indigenous, queer, and counter-hegemonic protocols of AI and technology to ask how we might understand technologies as remediating identity, temporality and spatiality in more multiplicitous and community oriented ways.

Kurzbiografie:
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss ist Kultur- und Medientheoretikerin, Forscherin und Kuratorin. Sie arbeitet an den Schnittstellen von feministischer und antikolonialer Kunst, politischen Praktiken, digitalen Technologien und Erzählungen (menschlicher und nicht-menschlicher) Subjektivität. Sara ist im Vorstand von diffrakt. Zentrum für theoretische Peripherie und Redakteurin bei kritisch-lesen.de

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