[Bigdatasur] June 29-30: DATACTIVE final event

[Jeroen de Vos]

Dear all,

We are nearing the end of the ERC-funded DATACTIVE project and*we have
many accomplishments to celebrate*!

For almost six years now, we have worked together to *investigate the
complex and multifaceted field of data activist imaginaries and
practices*. 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.

Throughout these six years, *the 'we' of DATACTIVE has been neither
static nor stable*. 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.

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.

But it is now time for thanks and celebrations! Please join us on
*Tuesday the 29th of June 2021 *(13.00-17.30 CEST)**for the DATACTIVE
closing event entitled *DATA ACTIVISM FUTURES*, 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

The DATACTIVE final event will be followed by a *public roundtable
discussion on ART AS DATA ACTIVISM *scheduled on the next day,
*Wednesday the 30th of June 2021 *(17.00-18.30 CEST). Note that each
event has its own separate registration process.

Please join us!

*More info & registration: *HERE
<https://data-activism.net/2021/06/june-29-30-datactive-final-event/>
(if link doesn't open:
https://data-activism.net/2021/06/june-29-30-datactive-final-event/
-- 
Best,

Jeroen

/Project Manager at DATACTIVE /


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