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09/27/2022
Award-winning filmmaker Shalini Kantayya will convey her data of the darkish aspect of expertise to a Gallery Speak titled “Coded Bias: How Human Prejudice Creates Corrupt Know-how.”
Her presentation will happen on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Gallery.
It is a uncommon likelihood to fulfill an achieved, award-winning filmmaker on campus head to head, in response to Jaroslava Prihodova, director of Dowd Gallery, which is situated within the Dowd Superb Arts Heart on the nook of Prospect Terrace and Graham Avenue
“Shalini Kantayya is an achieved filmmaker with a powerful historical past of notable and award-winning initiatives,” Prihodova mentioned. “Sadly, we frequently do not have an opportunity to fulfill creatives behind the digital camera and ask direct questions. This occasion gives a novel alternative for college kids and guests to fulfill Kantayya and work together in particular person.”
Kantayya’s Gallery Speak begins at 5 p.m. in Previous Principal Brown Auditorium.
Gallery occasions are free and open to the general public.
Kantayya’s current documentaries, “Coded Bias” and “TikTok Increase,” will be screened ahead of the lecture, every analyzing the algorithms used — and abused — in day-to-day life. Glossy, silicon guarantees of ease and leisure have additionally introduced with them urgent issues about privateness, bias and public surveillance.
“TikTok Increase” will happen at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6 at Dowd Gallery.
The second movie, “Coded Bias,” could be seen at 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 10, in Brown Auditorium.
“Coded Bias” was launched in 2020 and questions whether or not liberties are in peril if the expertise that runs the fashionable world is itself programmed with the unconscious bias of its creators. It was proven nationwide on PBS’ Unbiased Lens earlier than it reached a worldwide viewers by Netflix in 2021. The movie was nominated for a Critics Alternative award and an NAACP Picture Award for Excellent Documentary.
Kantayya’s “TikTok Boom,” launched this 12 months, explores the rise of the favored social media app and the battle between the tradition of its international Gen-Z userbase and the information surveillance inherent to its use. It would debut on Unbiased Lens on Oct. 24.
“The lecture demonstrates that our world is constructed to the picture of its creators with out consideration for all of its inhabitants,” mentioned Prihodova. “We regularly undergo constructed circumstances and not using a second thought.
The screening of “TikTok Increase” will happen at 5 p.m. on Oct. 6 at Dowd Gallery, Dowd Superb Arts Heart, Room 106. “Coded Bias” could be seen at 5 p.m. Oct. 10 at Brown Auditorium in Previous Principal. Kantayya’s Gallery Speak follows on Oct 11, happening at within the Brown Auditorium at 5 p.m.
The movies and lecture are associated to the present exhibition at Dowd Gallery, artist Beth Livensperger’s “Runaway,” which itself examines the impression of fast technological change. Prihodova says it’s a part of Dowd Gallery’s objective to tackle powerful subjects and spark helpful dialog.
“Exhibitions organized by the gallery are rigorously chosen to meet the tutorial mission of the Artwork and Artwork Historical past Division and supply house for questions, inspiration and a respite from the strange,” she mentioned. “We wish to provide thought-provoking exhibits that stimulate and additional the schooling of all guests, not solely college students.”
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to five:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday or by appointment.
“Runaway” is partially funded by the Pollock-Krasner Basis and the Provost’s Analysis Fellowship on the Faculty of Staten Island, CUNY. SUNY Cortland assist contains the Artwork and Artwork Historical past Division, Artwork Exhibition Affiliation, Cortland Auxiliary Companies grant, Campus Artist and Lecture Collection, Communication and Media Research Division, Cultural and Mental Local weather Committee, College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Workplace, Economics Division, Institutional Fairness and Inclusion Workplace, Haines Fund, President’s Workplace, Provost and Vice President for Tutorial Affairs’ Workplace, Scholar Authorities Affiliation.
Go to the Dowd Gallery web site for particulars about exhibiting artists, different packages, security protocols and on-line reserving. For extra info or to inquire about an appointment, tour or further photos, contact Jaroslava Prihodova, Dowd Gallery director, at 607-753-4216.
