Dear all,
We are very glad to announce that Louise Amoore (Durham University) will be giving a talk titled "Cloud Futures" at Birkbeck on Wednesday, 7 June. The event will start at 6pm, proceeded with a response by Joel McKim (Birkbeck, University of London) and will be followed with a drinks reception. This talk is co-organised by BIRMAC and Vasari Research Centre and open to all.
For more information and booking please visit here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/louise-amoore-lecture-cloud-futures-tickets-34725399605
*Cloud Futures*
The algorithmic architecture of cloud computing is becomingever more closely intertwined with sovereign authority – from the sharing ofintelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, and dronestrikes. Developing an analogy with the aesthetics of the cloud chamber ofearly twentieth century particle physics, I explore the geopolitical capacitiesof the cloud in cloud computing. Howdoes the cloud render perceptible that which could never be visible on aregister of human vision? Like the cloud chambers of twentieth century particlephysics, contemporary cloud computing is concerned with rendering perceptibleand actionable that which would otherwise be beyond the threshold of knowablefutures. Through the computational logics of machine learning and back propagation,the global present becomes governed by cloud reasoning on three distinctregisters: condensing traces; discovering patterns; and archiving the future.
Gunes Tavmen
Associate Tutor and PhD CandidateDepartment of Film, Media and Cultural StudiesBirkbeck, University of London
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