Relational Technologies, Technological Relations: An interdisciplinary assembly on existential challenges of AI and biometrics
Technology has always been with us and within us. It has shaped our relationships with each other and with the world around us since humanity鈥檚 beginning. However, the recent acceleration in the development of computing technologies, increasingly driven by automated algorithms and artificial intelligence, has reconfigured many of these relationships in unprecedented ways. Machine-based, AI-driven quantification and biometric measurement of human and non-human lives, behaviors, and practices are just some examples that prompt us to ask: In today鈥檚 techno-cultures, how do we relate to each other and our shared environments on personal, social, political, and even ontological and existential levels? How do technologies鈥攁nd those who shape them from front to back鈥攏egotiate, mediate, and manipulate these relationships?
Relational Technologies, Technological Relations emerged from discussions held as part of a research project titled BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds, funded by WASP-HS led by Professor Amanda Lagerkvist at IM/Uppsala University. The project鈥檚 central aim has been to investigate the experiential range of encounters with these technologies, focusing on both their possibilities and their challenges and vulnerabilities, in order to examine the urgent ethical imperatives they pose for a networked humanity.
This event marks the conclusion of the BioMe project by focusing on how artists, critical media practitioners, and other creative individuals and collectives engage both practically and conceptually with automation, surveillance, life-measuring technologies, and the biometrically orchestrated realities of everyday life. Through diverse perspectives on relationality, these works will interrogate the current hype around DNA analysis services, shed light on the opaque logic of Netflix content categorization algorithms, explore links between modern and historical anthropometric systems, question border-control technologies, critically engage with artificial voices, and reconnect with the biodiverse forms of intelligence.
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Technology has always been with us and within us. It has shaped our relationships with each other and with the world around us since humanity鈥檚 beginning. However, the recent acceleration in the development of computing technologies, increasingly driven by automated algorithms and artificial intelligence, has reconfigured many of these relationships in unprecedented ways. Machine-based, AI-driven quantification and biometric measurement of human and non-human lives, behaviors, and practices are just some examples that prompt us to ask: In today鈥檚 techno-cultures, how do we relate to each other and our shared environments on personal, social, political, and even ontological and existential levels? How do technologies鈥攁nd those who shape them from front to back鈥攏egotiate, mediate, and manipulate these relationships?
Relational Technologies, Technological Relations emerged from discussions held as part of a research project titled BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds, funded by WASP-HS led by Professor Amanda Lagerkvist at IM/Uppsala University. The project鈥檚 central aim has been to investigate the experiential range of encounters with these technologies, focusing on both their possibilities and their challenges and vulnerabilities, in order to examine the urgent ethical imperatives they pose for a networked humanity.
This event marks the conclusion of the BioMe project by focusing on how artists, critical media practitioners, and other creative individuals and collectives engage both practically and conceptually with automation, surveillance, life-measuring technologies, and the biometrically orchestrated realities of everyday life. Through diverse perspectives on relationality, these works will interrogate the current hype around DNA analysis services, shed light on the opaque logic of Netflix content categorization algorithms, explore links between modern and historical anthropometric systems, question border-control technologies, critically engage with artificial voices, and reconnect with the biodiverse forms of intelligence.
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