Ramon Amaro (Conversation)

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Sat Jun 1 | de Brakke Grond

In this conversation, we’ll explore the complex relationship between race and machine learning, and offer counter-strategies to current extractive AI systems and the culture(s) they originate from. Dr. Ramon Amaro will discuss his recent book The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being (Sternberg, 2023) where he contemplates the abstruse nature of programming and mathematics and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy. From there, he will extrapolate on techno resistance and black futures of generative AI and imagine speculative approaches to contemporary algorithmic practices. To this end, we can ask: How can we move towards a more generative way of living — with each other and productive technologies?

About the speaker

Dr. Ramon Amaro is a senior researcher for Digital Culture and lead curator of -1, a digital culture research laboratory at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. His writings, research, and artistic practice emerge at the intersections of Black Study, digital culture, psychosocial study, and the critique of computational reason. 

This speaker is part of the context programme at Brakke Grond. Session times will be added soon.

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