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Talk: Dr Kerry McInerney on the entanglement of AI narratives, Asian diasporic science fiction, and environmental catastrophe
Sunday 23rd July 2023 , 11:00am to 12:00pm
Join Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics researcher Dr Kerry McInerney as she traces the liberatory potential of Asian American and diasporic writing and artwork to offer us different ways of thinking about environmental catastrophes caused by AI.
Kerry will begin by examining the ways in which Asian American and diasporic sci-fi writers and artists represent Asian people in their work, how they critically engage with the objectification of Asian bodies, and how at the same time they offer us a different kind of relationship with objects.
She will present how these forms of art production can equip us with novel and compelling ways to reframe our thinking about the climate crisis and environmental catastrophe caused by AI, with a specific focus on e-waste and it’s impacts.
In this talk, Kerry will join the dots between a range of artworks and creative outputs, with more theoretical approaches to waste and pollution – like Max Liboiron’s Pollution is Colonialism and Mark O’Driscoll’s The Whites are Enemies of Heaven – making the case for a more intersectional approach to thinking about sustainability narratives and more creative ways to interrogate AI in relation to the climate crisis.
This event is part of ESEA climate organising group Green Lions’ takeover of our Bow Road site to bring our Second Nature: imagining climate futures week to a close. Second Nature is a focused week of events on sustainable practices, reparative habits, and imagining climate futures.
More about Kerry McInerney
Dr Kerry McInerney (née Mackereth) is a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, where she researches anti-Asian racism and AI and Asian diasporic approaches to AI ethics. Kerry is an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, where she brings complex conversations about gender, race and artificial intelligence to wide audiences. She is a Research Fellow at AI Now and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL.
Access information
The Bow Arts Trust courtyard room has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.
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Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Friday, 9am to 5pm
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
