Hoe zou u uw onderwijs willen vormgeven? Ontdek het zelf en ga aan de slag met het nieuwe boek Hey teacher, find your inner designer! Manon Mostert-van der Sar is de creatieve duizendpoot achter dit boek. Zij is een maker en ontwerper met een passie voor leren. Manon is aangesloten bij Stadslab Rotterdam …

In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief, refers to the point where machine intelligence leaves humans behind. Against the techno-utopian …

Human prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them. Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social segregation—in a digital world, identity politics is pattern discrimination. It is by recognizing patterns in input data that artificial intelligence algorithms …

Research and publishing have always been closely related but are currently undergoing changes. Informed by technological and cultural developments, their practices and definitions are being debated. For new forms of interdisciplinary and artistic research, there is a corresponding need for new forms …

How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them? To answer this question, this book investigates a fundamental axiom in computer science: pattern discrimination. By imposing identity on input data, in order to filter—that is, to discriminate—signals from …

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) has major public health implications, and underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Sensorimotor incongruence (SMI)—an ongoing mismatch between top-down motor output and predicted sensory feedback—may play a role in the course of chronic nonspecific low back pain. The hypothesis …

Panel discussion on big data, algorithmic profiling, filter bubbles and political populism with Florian Cramer, Daniel Irrgang, Matteo Pasquinelli, Vesselin Popov, Peter Weibel and Siegried Zielinski. In: The political economy of data: on psychometrics, deep learning and net populism. Daniel Irrgang, …

The current Facebook farewell activism will likely end up being just as ineffective as the Post-Snowden crypto activism of the last few years and Linux install parties before that. Facebook-quitters will likely rejoin the network after a hiatus, if they haven’t stayed on Whatsapp and Instagram anyway. …

Zine for Pluriversale VII: Stealing from the West, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, Germany. This missalette was intended as a companion document to a conversation. It contains emails, texts, and images exchanged between Florian Cramer and Clara Lobregat Balaguer regarding the theme Stealing from …

Als docent aan de Willem de Kooning Academie constateerde Teana Boston-Mammah dat de mix van studenten in haar leslokalen heel anders van samenstelling is dan de jongerenbevolking van Rotterdam. In dit artikel beschrijft ze haar onderzoek naar de selectiecriteria bij de toelating van nieuwe studenten, …