Vladan Joler & Kate Crawford
Vladan Joler & Kate Crawford
Vladan Joler is an academic, researcher and artist.
Joler’s work investigates counter-cartography, journalism, writing, data visualisation, critical design and many other disciplines. Throughout Joler’s career he has given multiple lectures and educational and art institutes, including the University of Oxford, Museo Reina Sofia, CCCB, The Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and more. He has received many awards like the design of the year award by the Design Museum in London (2019).
His art is inspired by game hacking and media activism. He has organised and curated several events and gatherings for artists, investigators and internet activists. He has work that is in a permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. Her work has focused on understanding large-scale data systems, machine learning and AI in the wider contexts of history, politics, labor, and the environment.
Kate is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR-NYC, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney. She is the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where she co-leads the international working group on the Foundations of Machine Learning. In 2021, she received the Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. She has co-founded multiple interdisciplinary research groups including FATE at MSR, AI Now Institute at NYU, and Knowing Machines at USC. Kate has advised policy makers in the United Nations, the Federal Trade Commission, the European Parliament, the Australian Human Rights Commission, and the White House.
Crawford's latest book, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence was published in 2021 by Yale University Press.