Under the title “Science and technologynology for a genderless future” that MUTEK 3rd editionIS Symposium will take place on Thursday, March 3 and Friday, March 4 in CHAIR HOUSE (Barcelona), a space created to explore the latest developments in design, mobility, technology and urban culture.
Continuing the commitment started in the previous issue to explain and begin to draw new industrial models where inequality and discrimination based on gender have no place, the two days will focus on debate and analysis of the impact technology and science have had and will have on culture, particularly in the area of creation. digital and voice, and highlighting their critical role in this new roadmap to ensuring a “genderless future”.
THURSDAY 03/03/2022
Opening 18 hours: Are we aware of the importance of science and technology for a ‘genderless future’?
Panel 18:10 hours: Algorithm fairness in gender lock
Through different researchers, this panel will focus on making visible how much technological progress, while it may seem objective and neutral, is not. It’s important to focus on the need to have a framework and debate on how artificial intelligence can contribute positively or negatively to this genderless future depending on whether AI systems reproduce -or not- the gender gaps that exist in the real world, they contribute to perpetuating prejudice, spreading stereotypes and/or validating existing structural discrimination.
19:05 Presentation: Moonai
Laura-June Clarke, co-founder and business director of Moonai, will explain the science behind the app, showing the impact sound design has had on neuroscience and how personalization and technology can help women’s health during menstruation.
19:25 Presentation: Linda O’Keeffe presents WISWOS
Linda O’Keeffe, director of the organization Women in Sound Women on Sound (WISWOS), will explain how, through various projects (events, workshops, publications…) they feature women working in various fields of sound, from music technology to sound arts. , voice and society, vote politics, and everything in between.
20.00 Presentation: Efe Ce Ele “Taxonomy, Gender and the Art of Technology”
The talks will link the different worlds between electronic art, bioart, biopower and post-structural studies, placing biology, technology, transmedia arts and music in dialogue, to reflect on how biological nomenclature and description generate categories that are often inflexible, which when brought to human beings , condition the existence and development of the subject.
20:30 Show Hours: Efe Ce Ele presents “Bio-Synthesis”
As a complement to his lectures, Efe Ce Ele will offer live transmedia performances created from microbiological and digital resources generated by an audiovisual environment.
FRIDAY 04/03/2022
18:00 Presentation: “Responsibility, commitment and activism in the media for social change with a gender perspective“.
Marta Salicrú, director of Radio Primavera Sound, will reflect on how media is key to advancing gender equality, breaking stereotypes and correcting imbalances between men and women in media content.
Panels 18:40: Femnøise presents “Challenges and opportunities of new scenarios and virtual economies for future creators”.
Femnøise brings together this panel of multimedia artists, creators of new digital environments and experts in intellectual property, to analyze the challenges and opportunities -with a gender perspective- emerging from the new emerging creative ecosystem (metaverse economy, NFTs…). Pay particular attention to the need for a legal framework to promote disruptive change that avoids continuing to reproduce the same roles and biases that exist in the real world.
19:30h Panel: “Social and technological progress: the challenge of today to ensure a diverse and inclusive technological environment in the future“.
The panel will analyze the challenges women face in the technological environment, and how the various groups and entities that promote women in technology, make their roles visible throughout history, promote policies applied to the structure and education of the workforce, and promote space. and training programs for their social advancement.
20:30 Show Hours: Alice Brazzit presents “IRIS”
Premiere of “IRIS” by Alice Brazzit, the result of an artistic residency promoted by MUTEKIS, the multidisciplinary creation center of Konvent Zero and the Muse project “A new wave in the Mediterranean” of the Italian Consulate General in Barcelona and Dreamers Academy. This immersive installation invites viewers to relive the personal journey of Iris, a girl born blind, during the discovery of the unknown where she is invited to describe the way she experiences, feels and relates to the world around her.
8:45pm Closing: WeAreEquals Network
WeAreEquals from the British Council teamed up with BE from the British Embassy in Spain to join the MUTEK symposium to celebrate exchanges between the UK and Spain and promote emerging talent.
To access MUTEK 3rd editionIS symposium is important to book a place in www.casa.seat.
Timetable: Thursday, March 3 and Friday, March 4 from 6 to 9 pm.
Direction: Thing. de Gracia, 109, 08008 Barcelona
you have it all information in www.barcelona.mutek.org
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