Photo credits: Lara Okafor, photo by Chai Saeidi. Letizia Jaccheri, photo by Kai Dragland. Namra Saleem, photo by Ilja C. Hendel. Design: Lauretta Kubbi/Kunsthall Trondheim
In connection to the exhibition Attention After Technology, we welcome you to a conversation with Lara Okafor and Letizia Jaccheri, with Namra Saleem as moderator, at Kunsthall Trondheim. The conversation will revolve around questions such as: How are the artificial intelligence technologies that we use every day made, and who gets to design these systems? Which interests govern the design? Who do these interests belong to, and are all groups included? The conversation will be held in Norwegian.
Lara Okafor (they/them) is a writer, software developer and organizer. They are interested in prison abolition, speculative fiction, queerness, and how these themes overlap with technology.
Letizia Jaccheri (she/her) is a computer scientist and professor at the Department of Computer Technology and Informatics at NTNU. She has led several projects that aim to motivate female students in IT subjects and was awarded the award “Door Opener of the Year” in 2019 and awarded the ODA Award Woman in 2021.
Namra Saleem (she/her) is a podcast producer and concept developer at Filt and has previously worked as an information advisor at TrAP (Transcultural Arts Production). She is also the editor of TrAP’s annual newspaper “10 inquiries” (10 undersøkelser), which deals with different topics each year. This year’s theme was artificial intelligence.
The conversation is a collaboration between Kunsthall Trondheim and TrAP, and it loans its title from Lara Okafor’s text published in TrAP’s annual newspaper 10 inquiries: Artificial intelligence, edited by Namra Saleem.
The exhibition Attention After Technology explores the connections between attention, algorithms, and social justice. The exhibition is funded by the European Union, and supported by SpareBank 1 SMN, Arts and Culture Norway, The Fritt Ord Foundation, Mondriaan Fund and IDM Dispenser.