Mushon Zer-Aviv Artist Talk: Experiments in Algorithmic Prejudice

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Mushon Zer-Aviv will discuss the Turing Normalizing Machine, Disinformation Visualization and other attempts to re-ambiguate technology and culture Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in Tel Aviv & NY. His work and writing explores the boundaries of interface and the biases of techno-culture as they are redrawn through politics, design and networks. Among Mushon’s collaborations, he is the CO-founder of Shual.com – a foxy design studio; YouAreNotHere.org – a tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv; Kriegspiel – a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; the Turing Normalizing Machine – exploring algorithmic prejudice; Alef – the open source multi-script font; the AdNauseam obfuscation browser extension that clicks every blocked ad; the Collaborative-Futures.org collaboratively authored book; and multiple government transparency and civic participation initiatives with the Public Knowledge Workshop; Mushon is also in charge of map design atWaze.com. Mushon is an honorary resident at Eyebeam – an art and technology center in New York. He teaches digital media as a senior faculty member of Shenkar School of Engineering and Design. Previously he taught new media research at NYU and Open Source design at Parsons the New School of Design and in Bezalel Academy of Art & Design. Read him at Mushon.com and follow him at @mushon. For more information on the School for poetic computation events, please visit our blog here.