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Reclaiming
The Future: 2018
What is at stake for the human animal in this critical moment in our evolution? Will we survive this technological adolescence? How can we reclaim optimism in the face of future technology?
On 11/17 a group of creative thinkers & makers will assemble to consider these questions in a radical new conversation format.
Unfiltered. Unmoderated.
A Long Conversation is a relay of two-person dialogues for a set period of time, unified by a common prompt.
Each speaker brings one idea to the stage about how to reclaim optimism in the face of future technology-a trend, an artwork, an innovation, a breakthrough, a movement.
Named one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine, Flickr founder, Caterina Fake is an early creator of online communities & a long time advocate of the responsibility of entrepreneurs for the outcomes of their technologies. Caterina's interests include the cultural impact of new technologies, human interactions online, design, good governance, innovation & creativity-and how we can all make the internet a kinder, more human place.
Caterina has received Honorary Doctorates from the Rhode Island School of Design & The New School.
Saul Perlmutter is a 2011 Nobel Laureate, sharing the prize in Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe. He is the leader of the international Supernova Cosmology Project, director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, & executive director of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics. He has appeared in numerous PBS, Discovery Channel, & BBC documentaries. As a professor of physics at UC Berkeley his interest in teaching scientific-style critical thinking for scientists & non-scientists alike led to his courses on Sense & Sensibility & Science & Physics & Music.
Saul is currently developing tools & methods for a citizen-scientist-style crowdsourced assessment of news articles.
In March 2006, Linda Avey cofounded 23andMe, the world's first personal genetics service company. About three years later Avey launched the Brainstorm Research Foundation, which focuses on accelerating research on the prevention & alleviation of Alzheimer's disease.
In 2011 Avey founded Precise.ly, which provides a platform where people with fatigue syndrome could track things such as their diets, symptoms, & treatments.
Alison Gopnik is the author or coauthor of over 100 journal articles & the bestselling & critically acclaimed popular books The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby & The Gardener & the Carpenter. Alison has written widely about cognitive science & psychology for Science, The New York Times, Scientific American, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, & New Scientist, among others. Her TED talk has been viewed more than 2.9 million times & she has frequently appeared on TV & radio including The Charlie Rose Show & The Colbert Report. Since 2013 she has written the Mind & Matter column for The Wall Street Journal.
An internationally recognized leader in the study of children's learning & development, Alison has most recently introduced the idea that probabilistic models & Bayesian inference could be applied to children's learning.
Paolo Cirio is best known for having exposed over 200,000 Cayman Islands offshore firms with the work Loophole for All in 2013; the hacking of Facebook through publishing 1 million users on a dating website with Face to Facebook in 2011; the theft of 60000 financial news articles with Daily Paywall in 2014 & of e-books from Amazon.com with Amazon Noir in 2006; defrauding Google with GWEI in 2005; & the obfuscation of 15 million U.S. criminal records with Obscurity in 2016. His early works include his cyber attacks against NATO & reporting on its military operations since 2001.
Aza is a cofounder of The Center for Humane Technology, which is leading the charge in reversing the digital attention crisis & realigning technology with humanity's best interests. Previously, Aza Raskin helped build the web at Mozilla as head of user experience, was named to Inc & Forbes 30-under-30 & became the Fast Company Master of Design for his work founding Massive Health, an early consumer health behavior change company. The company was acquired by Jawbone, where he was VP of Innovation. Before that, he founded Songza.com (acquired by Google), Humanized (acquired by Mozilla), & studied dark matter physics at the University of Chicago & Tokyo University.
Aza is proud to have served on the board for Planned Parenthood in California. He is less proud to have invented infinite scroll.
What if you could send a text by touching your hair? Or pay for coffee with your fingernail? Katia Vega always wondered why traditional beauty products & methods didn't seem to change much over the decades, so she pursued a PhD in Computer Science at PUC-Rio (Brazil) & set out to discover how we can make our bodies interactive platforms. Currently faculty in the design department at UC Davis, Katia's work has been featured by New Scientist, Wired, Discovery, & CNN, among others. At Reclaiming the Future, Katia will present her interactive installation, The Dermal Abyss, replacing traditional tattoo ink with biosensors that shift colors in response to changes in our metabolism.
In 2016, MIT Technology Review named Katia as one of the 5 Innovators under 35 in Peru. In 2017, CNET recognized her as one of the Top 20 most influential Latinos in Tech.
JD Beltran is an artist, designer, filmmaker, writer, curator, educator, & arts administrator. Her work has been screened & exhibited internationally, including at the Walker Art Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the M.H. de Young Museum, & the Getty Institute. JD has been commissioned for public art projects worldwide, & her work has been featured on NPR & reviewed in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, & Wired. JD is faculty at the SF Art Institute & the California College of the Arts, where she is also Director of the Center for Impact.
Alexander Reben is an artist & roboticist who explores humanity through the lens of art & technology. Using art as experiment his work allows for the viewer to experience the future within metaphorical contexts. Reben's work has been covered by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Filmmaker Magazine, New Scientist, BBC, PBS, Discovery Channel, & WIRED, among others. Reben has exhibited at venues including The Vitra Design Museum, The MAK Museum Vienna, The Design Museum Ghent, The Vienna Biennale, ARS Electronica, VOLTA, TFI Interactive, IDFA, The Tribeca Film Festival, The Camden Film Festival, Doc/Fest, & The Boston Cyberarts Gallery. Reben has built robots for NASA, & is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab.
Chris Kerich explores how the systems & structures that govern software & technology impact people's politics, thoughts, & lives. He works mainly through glitch & error, & is interested in how values & knowledge can be generated through breakdown as a methodology. At Reclaiming the Future, Chris will debut Piles, a durational video performance piece about the idealized relationships among violence, life, & death in seven videogames. In Piles Kerich asks viewers to spend time with the repetitive labor of violence, while considering the politics of access, player identity, & the infrastructure governing how aesthetic representation maps to gameplay.
For 25 years, Kal Spelletich has been exploring the interface of humans & machines, using technology to put people back in touch with intense, real-life experiences. His work is interactive, requiring participants to enter or operate his pieces, often against their instincts of self-preservation. He probes the boundaries between fear, control, & exhilaration by giving his audience the opportunity to operate fascinating & often dangerous machinery. Spelletich's work has been included in numerous museum & gallery exhibitions including the De Young Museum, SFMOMA, The Exploratorium Museum & Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has exhibited internationally in Namibia, Germany, Croatia & Austria.
Recently selected by Forbes as one of 20 Incredible Women in AI, Rachel Thomas earned her math PhD at Duke, & was an early engineer at Uber. She is a professor at the University of San Francisco & co-founder of fast.ai, which created the Practical Deep Learning for Coders course that over 200,000 students have taken. Rachel is a popular writer & keynote speaker. Her writing has been read by nearly a million people; has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Korean, & Portuguese; & has made the front page of Hacker News 9x.
Filmmaker Vero Bollow tells stories about science, technology, & the idiosyncracies of the human spirit. Her international feature, The Wind & the Water was nominated for the grand jury prize at the Sundance film festival. In 2014, she founded Stochastic Labs to support pioneering creative ventures in the SF bay area including Lynn Hershman Leeson & NASA scientist Josiah Zayner's epic transmedia artwork The Infinity Engine; JD Beltran & Scott Minneman's Cinema Snowglobe; Alexander Reben's filmmaking robot BlabDroid; Graham Plumb & Karen Marcelo's volumetric Open Cube; street artist KATSU's AI Criminals; & Lauren McCarthy's interactive performance piece Follower, among others. Vero is also the director of the Minerva Foundation.
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