Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology. In this episode, Yasmine Boudiaf talks about art, technology and justice.
Art, technology and justice with Yasmine Boudiaf
In this episode, we talk to Yasmine Boudiaf, a researcher, artist and creative technologist who uses technology in beautiful and interesting ways to challenge and redefine what we think of as ‘good’. We discuss her wide-ranging art projects, from using AI to create a library of Mediterranean hand gestures through to her project Ways of Machine Seeing, which explored how machine vision systems are being taught to ‘see’. Throughout the episode, we explore how Yasmine creatively uses technology to challenge the colonial gaze and the predominance of Western European ideas and concepts in ethics.
Note: this episode was recorded in Summer 2023
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Yasmine Boudiaf is a researcher and creative technologist focusing on data, epistemology and the absurd. She was named one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ 2022. She produces art and research projects and consults on project design, strategy and public engagement. She is a fellow at the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Royal Society of Arts and a researcher at the University of the Arts London (UAL) Creative Computing Institute. She has contributed to The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest‘s ‘Infrastructural Interactions’, investigating public data infrastructures using traditional and non-traditional research methods. She contributed the chapter ‘AI Justice Matrix: The Futility of Policy Craft’ to the Transmediale 2022 workshop ‘Rendering Research’.
You can find the episode reading list and transcript here.
About The Good Robot Podcast
Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry Mackereth are Research Associates at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, where they work on the Mercator-Stiflung funded project on Desirable Digitalisation. Previously, they were Christina Gaw Postdoctoral Researchers in Gender and Technology at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. During the COVID-19 pandemic they decided to co-found The Good Robot Podcast to explore the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology.
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