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In this talk, I will present three examples from my own creative practice as a “disabled cyborg” to illustrate ways of engaging generatively with computation. These new projects—a performance, a digitally knit textile and a ‘zine--expose the frictions between computational models and human bodies by exploiting computational error—ultimately, arguing that the body is not a computer. These creative projects draw on theoretical perspectives from science and technology studies and critical computing, with a specific focus on feminist and crip technoscience, to demonstrate the harms of AI in the healthcare space; the ways in which error accumulates in the body as a condition that contributes to further disablement. Yet, from a crip perspective, disability is a way of understanding what it means to be human in ways that will always seep out of and exceed computational systems despite corporate desires to surveil and capture human life.Bio: Laura Forlano, a Fulbright award-winning and National Science Foundation funded scholar, is a disabled writer, social scientist and design researcher. She is Professor in the departments of Art + Design and Communication Studies in the College of Arts, Media, and Design and Senior Fellow at The Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University. Forlano’s research is focused on the aesthetics and politics at the intersection between design and emerging technologies. She has used participatory workshops, collaborative games, exhibitions, speculative videos, prototypes and performances to imagine alternative futures for living with data and computation. She is the author of Cyborg (with Danya Glabau, MIT Press 2024) and an editor of three books: Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press 2019), digitalSTS (Princeton University Press 2019) and From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen (MIT Press 2011). Forlano is also an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She received her Ph.D. in communications from Columbia University.
| Periode | 28 jan. 2026 |
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| Sted for afholdelse | Human-Computer Interaction and Design |
| Grad af anerkendelse | International |