Peer2Peer — SATURDAY ALL EVENTS

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 10AM–6:50PM

10:00 AM — Welcome to P2P!

Complimentary coffee + donuts provided.

Presenters: Stacy Wood is a writer, researcher and instructor living in Los Angeles. She is the curator and producer of Peer2Peer and the Director of Research and Programs for the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry.

10:15 AM – 10:50 AM — The Computer was a Place: Exploring early internet cultures and software in contemporary artistic practice 

Presenters
Darcy McSwain is a designer and animator, who creates critically considered and carefully designed digital experiences, often using technology to critique technology.

Airis Encarnacion is a designer, photographer, and organizer currently working in Los Angeles. Her work explores tangible/intangible manifestations of memory and shared experience, and where the two might intertwine.

11:00 AM – 11:50 AM — Dark Sousveillance & Community Resistance: Lessons from Skid Row

Presenters
Victoria Copeland is a Research Fellow at the UCLA Center on Resilience and Digital Justice and former Senior Policy Analyst in technology at Upturn. Her research focuses on how data and technology are used to both perpetuate and "resolve" issues around interpersonal violence such as child abuse and sexual violence. She received her Ph.D and MSW from UCLA.

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is a community group building power toward abolition of the police state.

Downtown Women’s Action Coalition empowers women who live and work in Downtown LA to influence public policy change that promotes health, safety, and economic and social justice for women through collective action, public education, community building, advocacy and leadership opportunities.

12:00 PM – 12:50 PM — Building the Plane As We Fly: Community Tooling with Plot

A talk + discussion with Alice Yuan Zhang on Community Tools using the Plot web app.

Presenter: Alice Yuan Zhang is a Chinese-American media artist with a professional background in design, coding, communications, research, cultural production, writing and teaching. She runs an interdisciplinary project room called Plot 田 in Chinatown Los Angeles.

1:00 PM — LUNCH

2:00 PM — "Mirror"

A presentation of a work-in-progress expanding on the first viral time-lapse self-portrait video, "Me." This two-channel video installation with data-visualization textiles foregrounds timely questions about algorithmic bias, social algorithms, racial and gendered invisibility, and who gets to occupy space online.

Presenter: Ahree Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist working in video, new media, and textiles.

3:00 PM – 4:50 PM — Mashinka Firunts Hakopian on Ancestral Intelligences + Harris Kornstein on Generating Glitches: AI, Drag, and the Creativity of the Commons + Jamilet Ochoa on Technologies of Restraint: Immigrant Bodies and Spectacles of Violence

Presenters:

Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is a writer, artist and researcher born in Yerevan and residing in Glendale, CA. Her current book project, Ancestral Intelligences attends to the algorithmic erasure of non-Western knowledge systems, languages, and visual cultures, arguing for ancestrality as a method for rerouting sociotechnical systems toward pluriversal outcomes.

Harris Kornstein is a scholar and an artist of queer play. By day, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona working on contemporary technologies and digital cultures and by night, he is a drag queen who among other things, helped found the #MyNameIs campaign that fought Facebook’s so-called “real-names” policy.

Jamilet Ochoa is doctoral student in Gender Studies at UCLA. Her research interests include Women of Color feminisms, surveillance technology, and the examination of power structures in carceral and detention systems.

5:00 PM – 5:50 PM — Sam Cole @ 404 Media, We’re All Still Fucked: The State of Deepfakes and AI Abuse Imagery

Presenters: Sam Cole is writing from the far reaches of the internet, about sexuality, the adult industry, online culture, and AI. She’s the author of How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex.

6:00 PM – 6:50 PM — The internet we could have had is dead, long live the internet we could have had

Presenters: Christopher Kelty is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His ethnographic and historical work explores the intersection of science, technology and social/political theory. He is the author of Two Bits (Duke University Press, 2008) and  The Participant (University of Chicago Press, 2019) as well as articles on freedom, responsibility, participation in science and engineering. His current work is The Labyrinth Project (https://labyrinth.garden/), a multi-disciplinary collaborative research inquiry into conflict and controversy in urban ecologies in Los Angeles, California based in fieldwork with pest-control professionals, wildlife managers, biologists, and veterinarians. Also, Satan.