CADA

Human Entities Podcast

Arts EN ↓ 28 episodes

Human Entities is a series of public talks focused on technological change and its impacts – the ways in which culture and technology shape and influence each other. Organised by CADA , the programme takes place annually in Lisbon. Listen to recordings from 2025 to 2016. In partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the Fine Arts Faculty, ULisbon Funded by: The Dir.-Gen. for the Arts of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture

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Human Entities 2019: Stephanie Hare 20.11.2019 2:16:32

Facing Up to Biometrics Stephanie Hare Researcher and broadcaster Lisbon, 17 April 2019 Our face, voice, DNA, fingerprints and other data about our bodies (also known as our biometrics) are increasingly being used by governments and companies to identify and monitor us, and to analyse, predict and control our behaviour. The risk to our privacy, our civil liberties and our democracies is so grave t...

Human Entities 2016: Alice Benessia, Sara M. Watson 06.07.2016 1:56:35

Alice Benessia Do we really want and need to be smart? Can we? The imaginaries of the Internet of Things and their inherent contradictions Emergent information and communication technologies (ICT), such as the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), constantly redefine the texture of our culture, society and lifestyle, raising a number of fundamental epistemic, normative and ethical issues, in a const...

Human Entities 2016: !Mediengruppe Bitnik 09.05.2016 1:18:10

Artists’ group !Mediengruppe Bitnik will present recent works exploring internet subculture, surveillance and bots. They will talk about their recently completed work Random Darknet Shopper which directly connected art spaces with the darknet via an automated online shopping bot. With a weekly budget of $100 in Bitcoins, the bot went shopping on the deep web where it randomly chose and purchased o...