Conflict In My Outlook Book Launch

Jathan Sadowski is a senior research fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab and an associate investigator for the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making in Society, both at Monash University. Jathan's work focuses on the political economy and social impacts of digital systems that are data-driven, networked, and automated. He investigates the often-hidden interests, imperatives, and ideologies that influence the design and use of these “smart” technologies.

Anna Briers is a curator, researcher, and writer at UQ Art Museum, with over 20 years of curatorial and project management experience. Notable exhibitions featuring Australian and international contemporary artists include the two-part series: Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online (2020) online, and Don't be Evil (2021), UQ Art Museum; Craftivism: Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms (2018-21), a Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) and NETS Victoria touring exhibition (co-curator); I hope you get this: Raquel Ormella (2018-20), a SAM and NETS Victoria touring exhibition (co-curator); Cover Versions: Mimicry and Resistance (2017-18), SAM; Cornucopia (2016), SAM; and Nell (2016), SAM (co-curator). Briers has a Master of Arts in Curatorship and has published extensively on contemporary art.

Thao Phan is a feminist technoscience researcher at Monash University who specialises in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She has researched and published on topics including: the aesthetics of digital voice assistants like Siri, Amazon Echo, and Google Home; ideologies of ‘post-race’ in algorithmic culture; and AI in popular culture.