In this session, A+T 2020 speakers Rachel O’Dwyer, Diana Finch, and Ben Breen discuss artistic methods for engaging with algorithms; the circular economy and local money; and countering inequality in financial services.
Rachel O’Dwyer: Artistic methods for engaging with algorithms
A lecturer in Digital Cultures, Rachel O’Dwyer asks, how do artists represent and explore the ethics and challenges of sociotechnical systems?
This talk looks at practice-based methods emerging from art and design such as media archaeology, media art, speculative design and science fiction that provide ways of critically engaging with complex sociotechnical systems and their ethics.
Rachel specifically focuses on examples of works that critically engage with algorithmic credit scoring and asking how these creative approaches invite new ways of thinking about the complexity and ethical challenges of FinTech.
Listen to the interview with Rachel and Erin B. Taylor on The Human Show.
Diana Finch: Changing Money
Diana Finch of the Bristol Pound explores a fintech intervention to change local economies.
Many people are now convinced that our current economic system is the key force behind the growing damage to people and planet, through the drive for never ending growth. But not many people are developing practical ways to change the system.
Fintech is typically focused on creating short term profits within the existing paradigm, rather than creating the tools to develop a new one. Diana explores a highly innovative potential fintech intervention to radically change local economies.
Listen to Diana Finch and Erin B. Taylor on The Human Show.