What art can tell us about new digital technologies - Anna Briers

In this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Anna Briers about what visual art can tell us about new digital technologies. The current show at UQ Art Museum – called ‘Don't Be Evil’ – seeks to show us some of the invisible power structures of networked technology, including the implications of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data capitalism.

Anna Briers is the Curator at the UQ Art Museum. She has curated in both an institutional and freelance capacity for over a decade in various contexts ranging from art museums and arts festivals, through to underground tunnels and golden canola fields. She holds a Masters of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Elam) from the University of Auckland.

Further reading:

• UQ Art Museum, Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online 
• Safiya Noble, Algorithms of oppression: how search engines reinforce racism (2018: New York University Press)
• Timnit Gebru, 'Race and Gender' in Markus D. Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das (ed) in The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (2020: Oxford University Press)
• Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, The Anatomy of an AI System (2018)
• Simon Denny, Extractor (2019)
• Sean Dockray, Learning from YouTube (2018)
• Forensic Architecture, Model Zoo (2020)