Lightening Workshop: Gender mirroring bots & Turing test

Lightening workshop and artist talk

In the context of Rendering Realities (Big Brother Awards exhibition) of the Big Brother Awards Hackers & Designers invites the audience to discuss and experience their gender mirrored by chat bots. The bots will be trained collectively and on the spot. In order to compose new strategies to overcome online discrimination, that go beyond using initials only as female, H&D proposes to collectively comprehend the controversy, while training different bots and analyse them using the Turing test.

The Smell of Data is a scent developed to instinctively alert of data leaks on networked personal devices. The sense of smell helped early humans to survive. But now that our hunting and gathering has moved to the digital environment, our noses can no longer warn us of the lurking dangers in the online wilderness. Leanne will present her work, the series of prototypes it took to get to the final product, and her process and inspiration on giving a scent to data.

Doors open at 19:00 and the event will start at 19:30.

With the Smell of Data by Leanne Wijnsma and curator of the exhibition during the Big Brother Awards Magarita Osipian.