Saturday, December 7th
2:30 - 4:30PM

Secrecy and Transparency

The internet makes possible the unprecedented sharing of, access to, and data manipulation of, individual and social information with far reaching implications for personal privacy, healthcare, citizenship and national security, and for the definitions of personhood, institutional power and information itself. In this roundtable, we aim to explore contemporary notions of privacy, relationships between individuals and between individuals and institutions that arise through data exchange.… read more »

Saturday, December 7th
2:30 - 4:30PM

Secrecy and Transparency

The internet makes possible the unprecedented sharing of, access to, and data manipulation of, individual and social information with far reaching implications for personal privacy, healthcare, citizenship and national security, and for the definitions of personhood, institutional power and information itself. In this roundtable, we aim to explore contemporary notions of privacy, relationships between individuals and between individuals and institutions that arise through data exchange.… read more »

What counts as true and how we might know the truth in the age of coding. A discussion about misinformation, the decentralization of knowledge, and the struggle to establish what is real. Encoded algorithms help to provide security but also risk an encroachment on privacy.… read more »

October 15, 2022 at 1:30pm EST

Coding and the Human Phenotype: Manipulated Perception?: Fakery, Authenticity, and the Birth of NFTs

What counts as true and how we might know the truth in the age of coding. A discussion about misinformation, the decentralization of knowledge, and the struggle to establish what is real. Encoded algorithms help to provide security but also risk an encroachment on privacy.… read more »