Past event
STRP Scenario x Baltan Laboratories
Algorithmic redesign against social and ecological inequalities
- When
- Thursday, 11 April 2024, 13:00–15:00
- Where
- Microstad, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
- With
- Baltan Laboratories and STRP Festival
On 11 April 2024 Baltan Laboratories and STRP Festival held STRP Scenario x Baltan Laboratories at Microstad in Eindhoven, as part of Baltan's year programme Technologies Otherwise. The session looked at algorithmic redesign as a way to address social and ecological inequalities, and asked, among other things, how the energy system could be hacked so that it stops providing financial profit for warfare. It proposed alternatives to the dominant narratives around machine learning and financial technologies.
Ianis Dobrev, founder of the Chimerical Intelligence Lab, presented the lab's work on ecomorphic finance, the line of thought behind Cnidarian Economics.
Programme
- 13:00 Introduction by Lorenzo Gerbi (co-director of Baltan Laboratories)
- 13:10 Keynote by Ramon Amaro, digital culture researcher and author of The Black Technical Object
- 13:40 Q&A
- 13:50 Ianis Dobrev, Chimerical Intelligence Lab
- 14:05 Egór Kraft, interdisciplinary artist working on human and nonhuman agencies and technology
- 14:20 Break
- 14:30 Fishbowl discussion
Context
Technologies Otherwise was Baltan Laboratories' programme for 2024, supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and Stichting Cultuur Eindhoven. STRP Festival, this year under the title A Matter of Freedom, took place in Eindhoven from 11 to 13 April 2024.
Programme page at STRP · Technologies Otherwise at Baltan Laboratories