Beyond Effect: Affective Wisdom for Uncertain Times
Please note: This event took place in Oct 2020
This Autumn the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) are running a series of monthly Data Talks as part of their year of thinking about Data.
The talks will focus on data and social and racial inequality, at a time when issues of privacy, ownership and power around data seem ever more pressing.
We're delighted to be joined by Natalie Nzeyimana to kickstart the season with Beyond Effect: Affective Wisdom for Uncertain Times, exploring the world of A.I and ethics.
Natalie be asking how we can imagine (and re-imagine) what we have come to understand about emotions as they relate to emerging technologies. Can we reorient them from the margins of technology design, development and research? What would emerge if we started with feelings as a guide? Which kinds of adaptive, intuitive guidance systems might we build? How could they help support collective harmony during, despite and beyond uncertainty?
Natalie is a strategist, technologist and researcher based in London. She leads strategy at Nuanced Technologies where she focuses on artificial intelligence ethics and weaves emergent strategy into the nuanced approach. Exploring the sociology of Black life, she is writing a book about Grenfell.
SWCTN Data Talks will take place monthly until Christmas 2020, and they'll be hosting recordings via www.swctn.org.uk.
The talk will also feature BSL interpreters and a captioned version will be available after the event.
About SWCTN
The South West Creative Technology Network is a project to expand the use of creative technologies across the region. The network has offered three one-year funded programmes around the themes of immersion, automation and data. The grant is part of Research England’s Connecting Capabilities Fund, which supports university collaboration and encourages the commercialisation of products made through partnerships with industry.
This new network is led by the University of the West of England(UWE Bristol), in partnership with Watershed Bristol, Kaleider in Exeter, Bath Spa University, University of Plymouth and Falmouth University