[Ssnet_list] Reimagining Datafication - Panel and Workshops this Th/F

[Daniela K Rosner]

Hi all,

Please join us for a Thursday panel and Friday workshops at the Simpson
Center with Romi Morrison <https://elegantcollisions.com>, Jihan Sherman
<https://jihansherman.com>, and Lauren Klein <https://lklein.com>.

Details below and attached.

All the best,
Daniela (+ Anna, Regina, Marika)

*Thinking with Archival Theory in Algorithmic Systems*
On Thursday, February 29, Lauren Klein (Emory University), Romi Morrison
(University of California, Los Angeles), and Jihan Sherman (Georgia
Institute of Technology) will explore the value of archival theory as a
means of grappling with algorithmic bias. Rather than seek to mitigate
biases perpetuated by datasets and algorithmic systems, archival theory
offers a reframing of bias itself. Drawing on a range of archival theory
from the fields of history, literary and cultural studies, Black studies,
queer theory, and feminist studies, they propose absence—as power,
presence, and productive—as a concept that might more securely anchor
investigations into the causes of algorithmic bias, and that can prompt
more capacious, more creative, and more joyful future work. This work, in
turn, can intervene into the technical as well as the social, historical,
and political structures that serve as bias’ source.

Join us at 4:00pm in Communications 120. This event is free and open to the
public.


*Reimagining Datafication: Black Feminist and Critical Agendas*
On Friday, March 1, the Simpson Center for the Humanities will host two
workshops in Communications 202, the first facilitated by Jihan Sherman
(Georgia Institute of Technology) from 12:30-2:00pm; the second by Lauren
Klein (Emory University), from 2:30-4:00pm. Sherman, an architect,
designer, and artist, will lead  “Threads, Seams, and Storywork: Black
Feminist Technoscience and Crafting Design,” a workshop on Black feminist
technoscience and critical speculative storytelling. Klein's workshop,
“Starting with a Shuffle: Rethinking the Origins of Data Visualization,”
introduces her forthcoming digital project that shows how the rise of
modern data visualization should be considered in tandem with the emergence
of colonialism and capitalism.

Lunch will be served at 12:00pm. Registration is required. Register here.
<https://simpsoncenter.org/form/2024-dh-workshops-registration?mkt_tok=MTMxLUFRTy0yMjUAAAGRR8AZ8iCmRVNWSJYa1ir5iEsQ0fGR9yQnUxlXpvMeHg9BmTxgA36D8lINRQOTWvCuoycEdvKXXBpmXH2JTcAv_JjywrRULhYdnF8BYj5zkWA>
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