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“Data Rush” lecture Eleni Kosta

On Sunday September 20, 15:00-16:00, Eleni Kosta from Tilburg University will give a lecture as part of the WAMS “Data Rush” programme entitled

Leaving traces, living profiled: the legal challenges from ‘consenting’ to tracking in online and mobile environments.

The lecture will take place at the Noorderlicht fotofestival venue (the Old Sugar Factory, Energieweg 10, Groningen, directions).
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Debate “Data Rush”

WAMS is organising a debate among scientists and artists. With this debate we want to explore the theme “Data Rush” from both the artistic and scientific perspective. We will discuss a number of questions. What are the underlying problems we (citizens, society, business, government) are facing, and what is our way out? Is ‘privacy’ the right frame to discuss the challenges we are facing? Or is there a more general disconnect with the technology that is increasingly surrounding, nurturing and nudging us? Can we give ourselves more control over this technology? Should we even try? Can art help science, and can science help art? If so, how?

(The debate was a great success. You can read a summary of the debate here.)

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