The Human Rating System – A Roundtable
This is a slightly edited version of the introduction I presented for the roundtable on “The Human Rating System” that took place at the Sandberg …
how much water
In March 2021, the Buitenbroedplaats at Marineterrein Amsterdam made an open call, inviting young artists to think about ‘the city in transition’. Eva Hoonhout is …
Algorithms as cartomancy – Schemas of Uncertainty
Hosted by the Sandberg Instituut, Schemas of Uncertainty was a cross-departmental research group on the notion of prediction. It takes prediction from a historical phenomenon …
Non consensual bots and personal space
There is this bot on Twitter that creates a blogpost out of twitter threads. The bot functions more or less like this: someone writes a …
Machine learned cruelty and border control
The news about immigration control in the US are a daily display of cruelty. Children separated from their families, held in cages, detained in conditions …
Private space, public space, personal space
Just a few reflections scribbled in haste for future reference. Re-reading Jurgen Habermas’ “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” (a text I gotta confess …
A few observations about Amazon being urged not to sell facial recognition tool to police
From AP News: Amazon’s decision to market a powerful face recognition tool to police is alarming privacy advocates, who say the tech giant’s reach could …
Germany to roll out mass holding centres for asylum seekers, using voice recognition software
via The Guardian “Germany to roll out mass holding centres for asylum seekers” “It is like a prison,” said Lucky Raphael, 24, from Nigeria, who …
Demarcations, limits, borders
“No” as a border, a demarcation. Consent, then as a negotiation of borders and lines across the interpersonal. (A possibility of radical consent: border negotiation …
New Toronto Declaration calls on algorithms to respect human rights
New Toronto Declaration calls on algorithms to respect human rights From the article: “Today in Toronto, a coalition of human rights and technology groups released …