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Award-winning filmmaker Shalini Kantyre brings her knowledge of the dark side of technology to a gallery talk titled Coded Bias: How Human Prejudice Creates Corrupt Technology.
Her presentation will be held at her SUNY Cortland Dowd Her Gallery on Tuesday, October 11th.
It’s a rare opportunity to meet award-winning and accomplished filmmakers face-to-face on campus, director of the Dowd Gallery at the Dowd Fine Arts Center on the corner of Prospect Terrace and Graham Avenue.
“Shalini Kantya is an accomplished filmmaker with a strong history of notable award-winning projects,” Prikhodva said. “Unfortunately, there aren’t many opportunities to meet and ask questions directly to the creative people behind the camera.The event offers students and visitors a unique opportunity to meet and personally interact with Kantyre.”
Kantayya’s recent documentaries, ‘Coded Bias’ and ‘TikTok Boom’, screened before the lecture, each exploring algorithms used and abused in everyday life. Slim silicon, which promised convenience and entertainment, also brought pressing concerns about privacy, prejudice, and public scrutiny.
Kantaya’s gallery talk starts at 17:00. At the Brown Auditorium in Old Main. Gallery events are free and open to the public.
The “TikTok Boom” happens at 5pm. Dowd will be held at his gallery on Thursday, October 6th. The second movie, Coded Bias, will be available from 5pm. Monday October 10th at the Brown Auditorium.
Released in 2020, Coded Bias questions whether freedom is at stake when the technology that controls our modern world is itself programmed with the unconscious biases of its creators. It screened nationally on PBS’s Independent Lens before reaching a global audience via Netflix in 2021. The film was nominated for the Critics’ Choice Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary.
Released earlier this year, Kantayya’s “TikTok Boom” examines the clash between the rise of popular social media apps and the data surveillance inherent in the culture of Gen Z user bases around the world and their use. . Debuts on October 24th at Independent Lens. “The lecture shows that our world is built in the image of its creator without considering all its inhabitants,” she said Prihodova. “We often submit without hesitation to the conditions that are constructed.