[Air-L] UQ Art Museum x Liquid Architecture 'Listening to Misrecognition' online talk

[Thao Phan]

*UQ Art Museum x Liquid Architecture Online Talk*

*Title:* Machine Listening: Listening to Misrecognition

*Speaker: *Dr Thao Phan, Emerging Technologies Research Lab and ARC Center
of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society, Monash University

*Date:* Tuesday 18th January, 5:30pm Brisbane Time/6:30pm Melbourne Time

*Register for Zoom link: *https://art-museum.uq.edu.au/event/session/2087

*Abstract:*
What is the sound of racialisation? How might we listen to misrecognition?
What does machine error tell us about the precision of racism? And how can
the tools of a racist system be used to transcribe new forms of resistance?

This experimental presentation by feminist technoscience researcher Thao
Phan brings together critical work on race and algorithmic culture with new
techniques for dissecting and analysing automatic speech recognition,
applied to personal and public archives drawn from Thao’s life and research
on race.

Broadcast live on Zoom and across multiple platforms, this event is
part of Machine
Listening <https://machinelistening.exposed/curriculum/>, an ongoing
investigation and experiment in collective learning, instigated by artist
Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and curator Joel Stern for Liquid
Architecture <https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/>. In addition to Thao’s
presentation, the event will feature a discussion and demonstration of the Word
Processor tool,
<https://machinelistening.exposed/experiment/word-processor/> developed by
the Machine Listening team and Reduct, and recently launched as part of the
event ‘Unnatural Language Processing
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Vzqaoeul8>’, at Unsound Festival.

*About the speaker:*
Thao Phan is a feminist technoscience researcher who specialises in the
study of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She has researched and
published on topics including: the aesthetics of digital voice assistants
like Siri, Amazon Echo, and Google Home; ideologies of ‘post-race’ in
algorithmic culture; and AI in popular culture.

Her research takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach,
drawing on theory and methods from feminist science and technology studies,
media and cultural studies, queer and gender studies, critical race
studies, and critical algorithm studies.

*More info:*
https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/thao-phan-listening-to-misrecognition