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Dear all,<br>
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<p>We are nearing the end of the ERC-funded DATACTIVE project and<strong>
we have many accomplishments to celebrate</strong>!</p>
<p>For almost six years now, we have worked together to <strong>investigate
the complex and multifaceted field of data activist imaginaries
and practices</strong>. We have had a wonderful time bringing
together academics, practitioners, hackers and artists from around
the world. We have engaged in numerous interviews, focus groups,
participant observation of activist events, and we have even
developed our own open-source tools to support our research.
Together, we have traced the evolution of a global network of data
activists and tried to figure out how institutions are reacting to
their mobilization. We have explored the various ways in which
publics engage with surveillance regimes and how notions of risk
articulate strategies to resist it. We have shed light on the
workings of the algorithms that power big tech platforms and
located how human rights considerations painstakingly make their
way into the infrastructure of the internet. With the inception of
the COVID-19 pandemic, we have also devoted our attention to the
politics of counting in the first pandemic in a datafied society,
the inherent forms of exclusion and the risks of
techno-solutionism.</p>
<p>Throughout these six years, <strong>the 'we' of DATACTIVE has
been neither static nor stable</strong>. DATACTIVE has been home
to no less than 26 people in its core team, plus the many other
research associates, interns, and collaborators who visited for
period of time and enriched our work with their expertise and
unique contributions.</p>
<p>Although the project is coming to an end, we are well aware that
our work is not done. We will take our data-activist approach to
research to other venues and groups, and continue asking critical
questions wherever we will land.</p>
<p>But it is now time for thanks and celebrations! Please join us on
<strong>Tuesday the 29th of June 2021 </strong>(13.00-17.30 CEST)<strong>
</strong>for the DATACTIVE closing event entitled <strong>DATA
ACTIVISM FUTURES</strong>, to celebrate looking back and ponder
about the future. We have our Principal Investigator Stefania
Milan reflecting on five years of data activism, after which the
PhD candidates will take central stage. Becky Kazansky will shed
light on threat modelling within civil society and grassroots
resistance to surveillance, Guillén Torres will present his work
on institutional resistance to transparency efforts by citizens,
and Niels ten Oever will take us through the politics of
infrastructure. Guest speakers include Maxigas (University of
Amsterdam), Fieke Jansen (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University),
Claudio (Algorithms Exposed), and Svitlana Matviyenko (Digital
Democracies Institute). Davide Beraldo will engage in a discussion
with artists Joana Moll, Manu Luksch, Karla Zavala and Adriaan
Odenzaal about how art can contribute to the data activism agenda
by fostering critical data literacy</p>
<p>The DATACTIVE final event will be followed by a <strong>public
roundtable discussion on ART AS DATA ACTIVISM </strong>scheduled
on the next day, <strong>Wednesday the 30th of June 2021 </strong>(17.00-18.30
CEST). Note that each event has its own separate registration
process. <br>
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Please join us!<br>
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<b>More info & registration: </b><a
href="https://data-activism.net/2021/06/june-29-30-datactive-final-event/">HERE</a>
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href="https://data-activism.net/2021/06/june-29-30-datactive-final-event/">https://data-activism.net/2021/06/june-29-30-datactive-final-event/</a>
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Best,
<br>
<br>
Jeroen
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<i>Project Manager at DATACTIVE
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