Guest Lecture: Nelly Yaa Pinkrah |Bots and Pieces: Édouard Glissant and Epistemological Underpinnings of A.I. | July 5

Bots and Pieces: On Édouard Glissants technologies of Languages and Epistemological Underpinnings of A.I.

Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (TU Dresden)

This online guest lecture is co-hosted with Orit Halpern (Chair of Digital Cultures & Societal Change, TU Dresden)

Date and Time:
Tuesday, July 5, 4:40pm CET, W48/004

Abstract:
Media and technology are a fundament to how we make sense of the world. They determine how we relate – to all and everything. In this talk a necessary critical engagement with media technology such as Artificial Intelligence starts by relocating and occupying some of their histories that are intimately intertwined with ideas, movements, and experiences that reach beyond Europe and the US. What if we reimagine those stories that we believe narrate stories about us?

Nelly Y. Pinkrah is a postdoctoral research associate at the TU Dresden Lighthouse Chair of Digital Cultures. Her doctoral thesis about Édouard Glissant and cybernetics is based at Leuphana University Lüneburg where she is also associated with the Centre for Digital Cultures. In 2021 she was a lecturer at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, from October 2018 to May 2019 she was a Doctoral Fellow at the Global Emergent Media Lab at Concordia University, Montréal. Nelly writes for magazines and workshops for organizations on topics such as racism, gender, media and technology and she has worked with many institutions and (community) organizations (EOTO e.V., Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Gunda-Werner-Institute, transmediale digital arts and culture festival and many more). The latest issue of the German Journal for Media Studies (ZfM) was co-edited by her (together with Ömer Alkin and Jiré Emine Gözen)r: «X | Kein Lagebericht« (04/2022). Since June 2021 she is in the Steering Committee of the German Forum Antiracism Media Studies (FAM), she is also a member of the DFG Network »Gender, Media, Affect« and a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow.