As screen-based, networked digital technologies are seemingly a precondition for participation in contemporary everyday life, algorithms have become highly agentic semi-presences that massage our psyches, subjectivities and social systems.  

This symposium pushes algorithms into plain sight and considers their production and use as political acts, raising questions about claims to infrastructural neutrality, and highlighting programmed bias and resulting social injustice. Through analyses and artistic dramatizations of algorithmic logic, the symposium asks how we can take back attention, and be attentive differently: How do we protect and develop our capacity to imagine a future and work towards it, by creating spaces for thinking and doing – to act not react? How can artists and artistic thinking contribute? How to de-center algorithms? 

Read more: https://arthubcopenhagen.net/en/program/attention-algorithms-social-justice/

The Digital Divide. Attention, Algorithms and Social Justice is a symposium developed by Art Hub Copenhagen in partnership with IDA and TOASTER in the context of the 2-year Attention, Algorithms and Social Justice project funded by the Creative Europe/European Union. The project is focusing on innovation in the field of art by supporting artists and art institutions across Europe to research and develop new artworks exploring the relationships between attention, algorithms, and social justice. 

Anyone can join, but you must have an IDA user profile in order to participate. It's free and non-binding - create a user profile here; https://login.ida.dk/Account/register

The symposium will also be live streamed, you can sign up for the online event here: The Digital Divide. Attention, Algorithms and Social Justice Symposium - Online | IDA