D&S will host a workshop on the intersection of technology and work/labor. To participate, apply by November 1.

How are those who design, deploy and manage AI systems currently reconfiguring the dimensions of human-machine cooperation? As part of Data & Society’s Intelligence & Autonomy Initiative, Madeleine Elish and Tim Hwang conducted long-term research with a range of practitioners working in the intelligent systems and AI industry. Collected in booklet form, An AI Pattern Language […]

RSVP here. In the early 2000s, a group of scientists from outside mainstream biology proposed that they would make living things behave like computers. They would treat DNA like command code; they would make cells behave with Boolean logic; and ultimately they would make life programmable. They called their field synthetic biology. Since its inception, […]

Meryl Alper will lead this small group discussion based on her new book Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (MIT Press, 2017). RSVP here.

D&S will host a workshop on the intersection of technology and media manipulation. To participate, apply by February 15.

In a moment when the future increasingly feels like a foregone conclusion, Future Perfect brings actors from a variety of world-building disciplines (from art and fiction, to law and science) together to explore the uses, abuses, and paradoxes of speculative futures. Curated by Data & Society artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington, Future Perfect is an experimental one-day, […]

Join us on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 6 p.m. ET for this Virtual Network Power Hour with Equality Labs Founder Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Data & Society Operations Associate Irene Chung to share best digital security practices during this *very online* time. How are you activating your networks and staying connected? How can we continue […]

We’re teaming up with NEW INC for a virtual discussion about how creative practices evolve during precarious times. NEW INC members will give lightning talks about their projects at NEW INC and attendees will be invited to join the artists in a discussion about work, precarity, and art-making. Featuring members: Foreign Objects, Heidi Boisvert, Mark […]