Videocast
Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden has developed an innovative videocast format that brings the project focus Data↔Worlds to life in a new way. In exciting discussions, our doctoral students meet artists and scientists and explore the interfaces between art, research, and digital society. The format opens up diverse perspectives on how we deal with data in our time—critically, creatively, and interdisciplinarily.
Table of contents
Finn Brunton in conversation with Nelly Saibel: History of Digital Cash and Contemporary Crypto Politics
Finn Brunton im Gespräch mit Nelly Saibel: History of Digital Cash and Contemporary Crypto Politics.
In his presentation at Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, Finn Brunton (UC Davis) talked about the libertarian roots of digital cash and its manifestations in contemporary politics. In the first part, Finn Brunton traces the history of digital money in the Cypherpunk movement and the Extropians, whereby both movements are dedicated to building a technology that enacts certain ideas and beliefs about the future. The socio-technical reality, on the other hand, no longer has any vision of the future at all. In the second part, Finn Brunton and Nelly Saibel (Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden) talk about religious elements in discourses on digital technologies, tensions in libertarianism, and masculinity in Data-Worlds.
https://youtu.be/vIY-QIakNFg?si=pDAvCzRRJZbHWLcA
Tobias Revell in conversation with Niklas Egberts: Design and the Social Construction of AI
Tobias Revell in conversation with Niklas Egberts: Design and the Social Construction of AI.
In his presentation at Schaufler Lab, London-based designer, artist and researcher Tobias Revell shared insights from his PhD research on the role of design in the construction of AI. Among the strategies that Revell discussed are the construction of technological futures, the invention of use, the spectacle of progress, and technological normativity. Underlying these explorations is a constructivist approach that does not disregard the materiality of technology per se, but approaches AI through the sociocultural practices, scenes and events in which it is constituted as a discursive object. In the discussion, we touched on the conceptual history of enchantment and disenchantment in relation to technology and its implications for contemporary discussions about data-worlds.