Chris Kondek und ich sind eingeladen zur Konferenz Interrogating Ethics in Interactive Play: Exploring contexts of climate crisis, AI-driven bureaucracies and forced migration, die ab Samstag in Cambridge, UK stattfindet. Ausgerichtet vom Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities / CRASSH mit Unterstützung vom DAAD Cambridge. Ausgangspunkt sind Anna Seghers Roman „Transit“ (1943) und die digitale Plattform story.glitch(DE), die aktuell von den Initiator*innen der Konferenz, Zoe Svendsen und Roman Senkl, entwickelt wird.
„Taking the core themes of Segher’s laconic and powerful study of the tyranny and deadly absurdity of visa bureaucracy and its impact on the lives of those fleeing the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, we will explore how these stories resonate today, and on into the future, in an era where bureaucratic systems are driven by AI that is non-transparent even to its engineers, and in which climate uncertainty is being used to foster scarcity narratives, drive xenophobia, and justify border closures across the world.“
Weitere Speaker: Caroline Bassett (Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge), Jessica Bland (Deputy Director, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Cambridge), Elena Erdmann (Die Zeit Online), Jenny Gibson (Co-Director of the Centre for Human-inspired Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge), Phil Jungschlaeger (minus.eins), Roman Senkl (Burgtheater), Ayesha Siddiqi (Faculty of Geography, University of Cambridge), Zoë Svendsen (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge)