A short series exploring what Digital Fatalism means, as a concept and ideology in relation to algorithmic systems, computational cultures and the technosocial. Hosted by artist K.Woods (Kin>%, cell_less), these episodes feature a range of international artists and researchers who have dedicated a part of their practice or research to exploring digital networks, critical data practices, surveillance and tracking technologies, algorithms, digital media and/or digital literacy.
Artist Kyle McDonald discusses facial recognition technology, AI failures, data discrimination, and the connection between machine learning models and the prison system in an interview.
20 May 2025
Digital Fatalism: Eleanor Dare
Dr Eleanor Dare is an academic and critical technologist with a PhD and MSc in Arts and Computational Technologies from the department of Computing, Goldsmiths. In recent years, Eleanor has worked with Cambridge Digital Humanities on the AI Forensics project.
In this episode, we talk about AI and power, interrogating impossibly huge image datasets, how technology relates to deskilling and the impacts of ChatGPT in education and learning contexts.
9 May 2025
Digital Fatalism: Andres Dominguez (Alan Turing Institute), Ola Michalec and Peter Winter (University of Bristol)
A short series exploring what Digital Fatalism means, as a concept and ideology in relation to algorithmic systems, computational cultures and contemporary technology. Hosted by artist K.Woods (Kin, cell_less).
In this episode, I’m talking about technology and AI hype with Dr Ola Michalec, Dr Andrés Domínguez and Dr Peter Winter who lead a project called Against Digital Fatalism at the University of Bristol and the Alan Turing Institute.
12 Feb 2025
Digital Fatalism: Thomas Blomseth Christiansen
Today I’m talking to Thomas Blomseth Christiansen whose work I came across at an exhibition by FutureEverything in collaboration with Science Gallery London. He is part of Totti Labs in Denmark and is a contributor to the Quantified Self community, an international community who are makers and users of self-tracking tools and the proponents of the idea that you can pursue a kind of self-knowledge through numbers.
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12 Feb 2025
Digital Fatalism: Georgina Voss
In this episode, I talk with artist and writer Georgina Voss. Originally trained in anthropology and industrial economics, her work explores the politics and presence of large-scale industrial and technological systems. Her latest book Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World has just been published by Verso.
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12 Feb 2025
Digital Fatalism: Geert Lovink
A short series exploring what Digital Fatalism means, as a concept and ideology in relation to algorithmic systems, computational cultures and contemporary technology. Hosted by artist K.Woods (Kin, cell_less).
In this episode, I talk with Geert Lovink, the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, media theorist, internet critic and author of many books including Uncanny Networks, Dark Fibre, and Social Media Abyss among others.
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