EVENT
People’s History of the Internet: In-Person Workshop with Caroline Sinders
- Event
- Free
- Contemporary Art
Free Registration required
Friday, September 23, 2022
From 10 AM to 4 PM
Lunch break from 12 PM to 1 PM
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Milieux Institute
Concordia University, EV Building
1515 Saint-Catherine West
Room 11.705 (11th floor, Visual Arts Tower)
This workshop will happen in-person at Milieux Institute. Places will be limited; please book by contacting Daniel Fiset at [email protected].
Caroline Sinders will be offering an in-person workshop as part of People’s History of the Internet, a research project which aims at producing a decentralized and global narrative of the network’s presence and impact in our daily lives.
The workshop will use design thinking strategies as an artistic method to document, map, and explore collaborative ways to build and remember web community histories. More specifically, it looks to broaden, shift, or remediate accepted narratives or representations of the Internet, and to highlight key figures (some of them women-identified, or BIPOC) and moments that have largely been erased from canonical histories of the Internet. Participants will be invited to contribute data which brings forth our intimate, personal, subjective or countercultural experiences of (and entanglements with) the web.
This workshop is offered in partnership with Concordia University’s Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology.
This workshop will be offered in English.
Biography
Caroline Sinders
Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of technology’s impact in society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for public good, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others.
