Held in Spatial Chat in the CMAs @ MozFest Room.
Come meet the newest cohort of Creative Media Award winners. Their projects include an app that uses AI to predict police brutality; a stark visualization of the ways voice technology excludes Black voices; an animated film about Afrofuturism; and more. Awardees hail from the U.S., the UK, and the Netherlands. The projects are being created between January 2021 and launching into the world beginning in Summer 2021. Conversations will relate to the following topics and include an introduction to the projects:
Storytelling for Change - Binary Calculations (Stephanie, Neta, etc.), Alton (POV team)
Bringing Data to Life - Ahnjili +Tim
Black Data and Ethical AI - Johann and Anatola, Avery of Melalogic
Envisioning Ethical Futures - Tracey + Sophia Bazile
Black Arts and AI - Carnival Team (Noel, Gaskins, James)
This session will allow the new CMA teams to interact with one another and find others interested in the work they are doing. Our hope is that people will want to follow the progress of this cohort and get involved when testing and outreach opportunities are available.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:Very easily, we can just get around one virtual "table" for a conversation.
Jenn Beard is a Program Officer at Mozilla for the Creative Media Awards and the Responsible Computer Science Challenge.