Technology  

Hello, I am Johanna. I work at the intersection of

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Society 

ABOUT

I am a consultant and project lead at the German Informatics Society, where I coordinate a project on open-source chip design infrastructures and gender and IT. Before this, I taught and conducted research at the AI Lab of the HfG Offenbach and as an associate researcher with the Public Interest AI group at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.

Alongside my work, I freelance as an educator, curator and workshop lead. I explore how AI shapes culture, collective imagination, and the futures we consider possible. Drawing on futures studies, philosophy and media studies, I’m especially interested in how knowledge is produced, mediated, and contested within sociotechnical contexts and how art and design can help us critically engage with emerging technologies.

EXPERTISE

  • I am passionate about sharing my research and insights through presentations, panels, and seminars. Some of my favourite topics include Sustainable AI, AI Visions and Myths and the history of machine intelligence and AI and Creativity. I strive to spark meaningful discussions and provoke new ways of thinking about futures by questioning our assumptions about technology.

  • In my workshops, I combine methods of futures studies with topics on digital transformation to promote transdisciplinary, multiperspective, and creative (futures) thinking. Through creative engagement with possible futures, participants are empowered to navigate uncertainty and understand how our perceptions of the future can shape our actions in the present. Together we explore questions such as: how do we imagine a humane digital future? How can we redesign and counter current narratives of our digital futures? How do we make sense of digital transformation and its many social, political, cultural, and environmental implications?

  • As a project coordinator and curator, I specialize in conceptualizing and developing interdisciplinary cultural programs. By integrating a diversity of perspectives I develop and conceive conferences, exhibitions and workshops that intersect art, science, technology, and (sustainable) futures.

NEXT

Monday, 1 December, 2024
(Un)dressed: AI, Gender and Aesthetics of Control

Gastvortrag im Rahmen des Seminars “Hunter Eyes, Tradwives and cute little Hamsters”, KISD, Köln