March 4th, 2022 from 3:30 – 4:30 PM EST
moderated by Ami Mehta
GUEST SPEAKERS
ELIZABETH FERGUSON
Elizabeth Ferguson is a researcher / designer at the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission where she conducts user research with people with taxi and for-hire licenses and works with colleagues to apply human-centered design. Before that, she was a program manager at Carnegie Hall’s education department, running programs in which teenagers in NYC’s juvenile justice system wrote and performed original music. In between she had a great time at ITP. Elizabeth likes to spend time with her 2 year old, swim, and learn new things. www.elizabethjeaneferguson.com
CAROLINE SINDERS
Caroline Sinders is an award winning critical designer, researcher, and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence, intersectional justice, systems design, harm, and politics in digital conversational spaces and technology platforms. She has worked with the United Nations, Amnesty International, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, Google’s PAIR (People and Artificial Intelligence Research group), Ars Electronica’s AI Lab, the Weizenbaum Institute, the Mozilla Foundation, Pioneer Works, Eyebeam, Ars Electronica, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Sci Art Resonances program with the European Commission, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern, the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, Telematic Media Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA PS1, LABoral, Wired, Slate, Hyperallergic, Clot Magazine, Quartz, the Channels Festival, and others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.