Wendy at the New Materialist Informatics Conference at University of Kassel, Germany

Wendy will be presenting a keynote at the conference entitled “Authenticating Figures: Algorithms and the New Politics of Recognition”

What does recognition mean in an era of pervasive data capture and automatic pattern detection? Tracing the historical move from “pattern discrimination” to “pattern recognition”, this talk unpacks the logic and politics of recognition at the core of systems designed to automatically identify and classify users. It argues for the centrality of the humanities in understanding how we have become characters in a drama called “Big Data”.