[Air-L] Tech & Power Conference (May 6-7) + Workshop (June 1-4) - Free, Online - Register/Apply Now!

[Peaks Krafft]

UAL Creative Computing Institute (CCI)<https://www.arts.ac.uk/creative-computing-institute> invites you to join them for their 2021 creative learning programme Technology and Power: Rights, Resistance and Reimaginings<http://bit.ly/ccitechandpower_signup>.

A public seminar followed up with a 4-day practical workshop, the programme will examine human rights in the technology sector and share skills and tactics that people can use to challenge big tech power.

It is curated by Dr Peaks Krafft<https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/press-office/stories/dr-peaks-krafft-to-lead-ma-internet-equalities-at-ual-creative-computing-institute>, MA Internet Equalities<https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/creative-computing/postgraduate/ma-internet-equalities> Course Leader at UAL CCI and organised together with CCI’s Creative Learning Producer Georgina Capdevila Cano<https://www.arts.ac.uk/creative-computing-institute/people/georgina-capdevila-cano>, with presentations from an engaging group of early career researchers, artists, advocates, and activists.
Technology & Power: Public seminar
6 and 7 May (1pm-3pm)
Streaming live on CCI’s YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtj43Vmw85ghSncJHW1xBVA>
Sign up<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/technology-and-power-public-seminar-tickets-150595688759> required
From exploring how power is organised, embedded and shared in internet technologies, this event will discuss tech-related grassroots human rights advocacy campaigns and ideas for brighter technological futures. The framing and theory provided at this event will be taken further in the following hands-on workshop.
Technology & Power: Rights, Resistance and Reimaginings
A 4-day workshop
Online, 1-4 June (4-7pm)
Limited spaces - Apply by 11 May<http://bit.ly/ccitechandpower_apply>
Anyone interested in pursuing technology and activism more closely is invited to apply to take part in this follow-up workshop. It will take participants through critical analysis of subject case studies as well as introduce practical skills for activist  interventions. If selected for the workshop, you will be asked to commit to either attending the live seminar (above) or watching a recording of it before attending the workshop.
Sign up
We welcome students, artists, practitioners, designers, programmers, activists - and any other curious minds interested in learning more about human rights, internet technology regulations, and alternative techno-futures. All welcome - anyone can register to the event and apply to take part in the workshop:

  *   Sign up to the public seminar<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/technology-and-power-public-seminar-tickets-150595688759>
  *   Apply to the workshop<http://bit.ly/ccitechandpower_apply> [closing date 11 May]
  *   View or download the Programme document [PDF 5.7MB]<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zlliIS02K-u7B8KBTaV3MOxWdHFwq3zA/view>

Contributors
Peaks Krafft (they/them) Senior Lecturer and MA Internet @_pmkr<https://twitter.com/_pmkr>
MA Internet Equalities Course Leader at UAL Creative Computing Institute. Dr Krafft undertakes critically-oriented computer science research, academic organising, and community organising. <https://twitter.com/_pmkr>

Katherine Ye (they/them), Carnegie Mellon University & Coveillance Collective @hypotext<https://twitter.com/hypotext>
Researcher and critical technologist making computing more expressive and equitable. 

Micah Epstein (they/them/he/him), Coveillance Collective Webpage
<http://meandmy.systems/>Designer, researcher, and storyteller fascinated and a little worried about the urban realm and the increasing pace of technology; seeking to make complicated systems accessible in a variety of medium. <http://meandmy.systems/>

Matt Mahmoudi (he/him),  Amnesty Tech @DocMattMoudi<https://twitter.com/DocMattMoudi>
Researcher/Adviser at Amnesty Tech and Scholar of Tech & Migration. #BanTheScan

Jennifer Lee (she/her), ACLU-WA  @jennifer_e_lee<https://twitter.com/jennifer_e_lee>
Technology & Liberty Manager at the ACLU of Washington advocating for state and local legislation to regulate powerful surveillance and AI-based technologies, and organizing a tech coalition that centers race equity and the voices of historically marginalized communities.

Mallika Balakrishnan (she/her), No Tech For Tyrants & University of Cambridge @mjbalakrishnan<https://twitter.com/mjbalakrishnan>
Human rights researcher and student organizer working with No Tech For Tyrants tosever links between higher education and racist, anti-migrant technology. #RecruitMeNot<https://twitter.com/mjbalakrishnan>

Jazmin Morris (she/her), University of the Arts London Linktree<https://linktr.ee/jmmorris>
Artist and educator creating digital experiences that highlight issues surrounding gender, race and power; focusing on the complexities within simulating culture and identity.<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jazminmorris>

Kira Allmann (she/her), University of Oxford @KiraAllmann<https://twitter.com/KiraAllmann>
Postdoctoral researcher working on digital in/equality, digital rights, and community internet networks.

Florence Okoye (she/her), AfroFutures_UK @FINOkoye<https://twitter.com/FINOkoye>
Curator, user experience/service Designer, and comic artist interested in Open Access and mundane intersectional futurist practice

Yasmine Boudiaf (she/her), Goldsmiths, Ada Lovelace Institute, and The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest  @YasmineBoudiaf <https://twitter.com/YasmineBoudiaf>
Artist and technologist investigating tech infrastructures, drawing on trans*feminist, queer and anti-colonial perspectives.

Irene Fubara-Manuel (they/them), University of Sussex & Ada Lovelace Institute Web profile<https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p334950-irene-fubara-manuel>
Lecturer, media artist, game designer, and researcher on coloniality, biometric surveillance, migration, race & sexuality, and African digital futures.


Cheers,
Peaks

(they/them<https://pronoun.is/they/>)


—

P. M. Krafft, PhD

Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for MA Internet Equalities<https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/creative-computing/postgraduate/ma-internet-equalities> (accepting applications for 2021!)

University of Arts London Creative Computing Institute


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