Lecture by Catherine D’Ignazio (US) and Vanessa Graf (AT) as part of the Feminist AI Lecture Series.
Vanessa Graf (she/her) is a writer and researcher at the Critical Media Lab Basel, where she is working on her PhD project Head in the Cloud as part of the MAKE/SENSE graduate school at FHNW Academy of Art and Design. She holds a Bachelor in Political Science from SciencesPo Paris and a Master in Media and Culture Studies from University of Art and Design Linz. Currently, she is supplementing her research with a Bachelor in Biology (ongoing) at University of Salzburg. In her research, she is interested in the interactions of (digital) technology with culture and ecology, in particular as mediated by narratives, metaphors, and sociotechnical imaginaries. Her practice-based research draws on approaches and sources from media theory/ecology, anthropology, art, literature, ecofeminism, and information technology. Her work has been exhibited on several occasions, such as at the Ars Electronica Festival and Biennale Warszawa, and she has received numerous prizes and scholarships for both her research, artistic work, and literature.www.vanessagraf.at
Catherine D’Ignazio is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial justice, particularly in relation to space and place. D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run reproductive justice hackathons, designed global news recommendation systems, and created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures. With Rahul Bhargava, she built the platform Databasic.io, a suite of tools and activities to introduce newcomers to data science. Her book, Data Feminism (MIT Press 2020), co-authored with Lauren F. Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Since 2019, she has co-organized Data Against Feminicide, a participatory action-research-design project, with Isadora Cruxên, Silvana Fumega and Helena Suárez Val which includes AI tools for human rights data activists. D'Ignazio's forthcoming book, Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (MIT Press 2024), highlights how mainstream data science can learn a lot from the care and memory work of grassroots feminist activists across the Americas.
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