Surrounded by and through Beavers and Walls, the new work she created for Eyebeam’s exhibition Outside/In, artist Torkwase Dyson and writer Joon Oluchi Lee engage in a collaborative dialogue about history, technology, race, and the feeling of the sublime. They touch deeply upon how an historical space gets animated beyond and outside its own time, and the role of the artist in engaging the built environment of this history.  

How does the trauma of environmental racism reside and transform within the materiality of spatial sites? How can diagrammatic abstraction compel our acknowledgment of geographic patterns and architecture related to these histories? What role does technology have in the narrativizing of that history, and how we enfold it into the cells of our own being?

Data Emotionalization and Racial Technologies

In the aftermath of the FCC ruling repealing the Obama administration’s 2015 net neutrality rules, lawmakers in a slate of states are fighting to protect open internet laws. This Forecast conversation focuses on where the fight is now while exploring what some of the most promising new models are for ensuring net neutrality for all. This 45-minute-long conversation will also look ahead to discuss the biggest challenges for net neutrality in the coming months, and what we can expect as states ramp up their fight against the FCC’s ruling. 

Panelists:

Gigi Sohn is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable and democratic communications networks. For nearly thirty years, Gigi has worked across the country to defend and preserve the fundamental competition and innovation policies that have made broadband Internet access more ubiquitous, competitive, affordable, open and protective of user privacy.

Rebecca Ricks is a creative technologist and researcher thinking about internet freedom, online privacy, and computational systems. Currently she is a 2017-2018 Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow at Human Rights Watch researching how individuals use encryption and security online.

Dhruv Mehrotra is an activist, and engineer who thinks about networks, power, and policy. Dhruv is currently a resident at Eyebeam.

Surya Mattu is an artist and engineer, and resident in Eyebeam's R&D Program for the Future of Journalism. Surya was contributor for ProPublica, where his project Machine Bias was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

The Forecast: Online Panel on Net Neutrality

Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future: Information Session

Eyebeam enables people to think creatively and critically about technology’s effect on society, with the mission of revealing new paths toward a more just future for all.

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