Thao Phan's guest appearances

Thao Phan

ACCA Podcast

Conversations in Anthropology

Race Matters

Undisciplinary

Rick Smith

Rosalind Fredericks

Catherine Besteman

Kathleen Belew

Jane Williams

Anna Tsing

Caroline Schuster

Shanti Sumartojo

Elizabeth Povinelli

Alison Kenner

Siad Darwish

Akhil Gupta

Monica Minnegal

Anne Galloway

Radhika Govindrajan

OwlTail

DECODING RACE, AI, ALGORITHMS &amp; AUTOMATION  The  tech we use  impacts  our  lives. They aren’t neutral objects but can have particular worldviews baked-in to the very operation of them. It can be overwhelming to begin to challenge those cultural biases when a lot of mainstream conversation on technology is wrapped up in speculation and paranoia. How do we make sense of all this? On today’s show we begin to decode some of this with guest producer Dr Sarita Herse in conversation with feminist technoscience Dr Thao Phan. Together they chat through race, AI and algorithms helping us see through the veil of opaque and insidious tech; and ways to co-opt these forms to find meaningful resistance.   updated link  To learn more about the “Study In” that Thao mentioned at the end of their conversation, follow us on socials or submit your expression of interest via the Art+Australia website.  Learn more about Dr Thao Phan’s work   5 Questions on Liminal    Listening to Misrecognition - her amazing performance lecture on machine listening and racialised English    Read some of her academic work here  This piece was produced by Sarita Herse, and was co-hosted by Sarita Herse &amp; Shareeka Helaluddin.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DECODING RACE, AI, ALGORITHMS &amp; AUTOMATION The  tech we use  impacts  our  lives. They aren’t neutral objects but can have particular worldviews baked-in to the very operation of them. It can be overwhelming to begin to challenge those cultural biases when a lot of mainstream conversation on technology is wrapped up in speculation and paranoia. How do we make sense of all this? On today’s show we begin to decode some of this with guest producer Dr Sarita Herse in conversation with feminist technoscience <a href="https://www.admscentre.org.au/thao-phan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr Thao Phan</a>. Together they chat through race, AI and algorithms helping us see through the veil of opaque and insidious tech; and ways to co-opt these forms to find meaningful resistance.  updated link  To learn more about the “Study In” that Thao mentioned at the end of their conversation, follow us on <a href="http://instagram.com/race_matters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a> or submit your expression of interest via the <a href="http://https//www.artandaustralia.com/58_1/p143/study-in-on-ai-race-art" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Art+Australia website.</a> Learn more about Dr Thao Phan’s work <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.liminalmag.com/5-questions/thao-phan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">5 Questions on Liminal</a><a href="https://www.liminalmag.com/5-questions/thao-phan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/thao-phan-listening-to-misrecognition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listening to Misrecognition - her amazing performance lecture on machine listening and racialised English </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://monash.academia.edu/TPhan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read some of her academic work here</a> This piece was produced by Sarita Herse, and was co-hosted by Sarita Herse &amp; Shareeka Helaluddin. </li> </ul> See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

#140 Decoding Race, Ai, Algorithms & Automation (with Dr Thao Phan & Dr Sarita Herse)

What is the sound of racialisation? How might we listen to misrecognition? What does machine error tell us about the precision of racism? And how can the tools of a racist system be used to transcribe new forms of resistance?This experimental presentation is a collaboration between feminist technoscience researcher Thao Phan and Machine Listening, an ongoing investigation and experiment in collective learning, instigated by artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and researcher, curator and artist Joel Stern. Part lecture and part performance, this event brings together critical work on race and algorithmic culture with new techniques for dissecting and analysing automatic speech recognition, applied to personal and public archives drawn from Thao’s life and research. It features a discussion and demonstration of the Word Processor tool, developed in 2021 by the Machine Listening team and Reduct, a US-based tech company co-founded by the artist Robert Ochschorn.

What is the sound of racialisation? How might we listen to misrecognition? What does machine error tell us about the precision of racism? And how can the tools of a racist system be used to transcribe new forms of resistance? This experimental presentation is a collaboration between feminist technoscience researcher Thao Phan and Machine Listening, an ongoing investigation and experiment in collective learning, instigated by artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and researcher, curator and artist Joel Stern. Part lecture and part performance, this event brings together critical work on race and algorithmic culture with new techniques for dissecting and analysing automatic speech recognition, applied to personal and public archives drawn from Thao’s life and research. It features a discussion and demonstration of the Word Processor tool, developed in 2021 by the Machine Listening team and Reduct, a US-based tech company co-founded by the artist Robert Ochschorn.

Thao Phan Performance lecture: Listening to Misrecognition

In this episode Chris and Courtney talk with Thao Phan about her research on AI, Robotics and algorithmic cultures. Specifically, discussing her work on  technologies like Amazon's Echo and Apple's Siri and how they continue histories of racialised, gendered and classed labour in the domestic sphere. They also discuss the ethics of AI and how much of the ethics research is funded by the companies producing the ethical questions. Thao is a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. She is a feminist STS researcher who analyses the technologization of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She is also the Co-founder and Convenor of the Australasian STS grad network (or AusSTS) and the program coordinator for the Deakin Science and Society Network. ReferencesThe materiality of the digital and the gendered voice of Siri (2017) TechnoscienceAmazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness (2019) CatalystEconomies of virtue: the circulation of "ethics" in AI and digital cultureRe Bioethicist serving on pharma board see Leigh Turner's pieceMusic &amp; AudioThe Jetsons: Rosie the Robot First AppearanceMusic City Plaza - Dan Bodan

In this episode Chris and Courtney talk with Thao Phan about her research on AI, Robotics and algorithmic cultures. Specifically, discussing her work on  technologies like Amazon's Echo and Apple's Siri and how they continue histories of racialised, gendered and classed labour in the domestic sphere. They also discuss the ethics of AI and how much of the ethics research is funded by the companies producing the ethical questions. Thao is a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. She is a feminist STS researcher who analyses the technologization of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She is also the Co-founder and Convenor of the Australasian STS grad network (or AusSTS) and the program coordinator for the Deakin Science and Society Network. References<ul><li><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Transformations29_Phan.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The materiality of the digital and the gendered voice of Siri</a> (2017) Technoscience</li><li><a href="https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29586" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness</a> (2019) Catalyst</li><li><a href="https://socialsciences.org.au/workshop/economies-of-virtue-the-circulation-of-ethics-in-ai-and-digital-culture/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Economies of virtue: the circulation of "ethics" in AI and digital culture</a></li><li>Re Bioethicist serving on pharma board see<a href="https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2012/02/u-m-ethicists-respond-latest-conflict-interest-scandal/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Leigh Turner's piece</a></li></ul>Music &amp; Audio<ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnoEpUrucwE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Jetsons: Rosie the Robot First Appearance</a></li><li>Music <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laxfjUyxrgA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">City Plaza - Dan Bodan</a></li></ul>

AI, Robots & Algorithmic Cultures in the Home & Beyond: a conversation with Thao Phan

Nick Seaver

Algorithms and artificial intelligence are on the menu for our 36th adventure in anthropology! In this episode, we present two conversations with two great Science and Technology Studies scholars: Dr Nick Seaver and Dr Thao Phan. Dr Seaver, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, examines themes of taste and attention in his research, drawing on his ethnographic research with US-based developers of algorithmic music recommender systems. Dr Phan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, where her research who focuses on gender, AI, and algorithmic cultures.--For more on our sparkling guests, see:https://twitter.com/npseaverSeaver, Nick. "What should an anthropology of algorithms do?." Cultural anthropology 33.3 (2018): 375-385.  https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/download/ca33.3.04/90 https://twitter.com/thao_powPhan, Thao. "Amazon Echo and the aesthetics of whiteness." Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5.1 (2019): 1-38. https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/download/29586/24800--Conversations in Anthropology is a podcast about life, the universe, and anthropology produced by David Boarder Giles, Timothy Neale, Cameo Dalley, Mythily Meher and Matt Barlow. This podcast is made in partnership with the American Anthropological Association and supported by the Faculty of Arts &amp; Education at Deakin University. Find us at conversationsinanthropology.wordpress.com or on Twitter at @AnthroConvo

Algorithms and artificial intelligence are on the menu for our 36th adventure in anthropology! In this episode, we present two conversations with two great Science and Technology Studies scholars: Dr Nick Seaver and Dr Thao Phan. Dr Seaver, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, examines themes of taste and attention in his research, drawing on his ethnographic research with US-based developers of algorithmic music recommender systems. Dr Phan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, where her research who focuses on gender, AI, and algorithmic cultures. -- For more on our sparkling guests, see: <a href="https://twitter.com/npseaver" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/npseaver</a> Seaver, Nick. "What should an anthropology of algorithms do?." Cultural anthropology 33.3 (2018): 375-385. <a href="https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/download/ca33.3.04/90" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/download/ca33.3.04/90</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/thao_pow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/thao_pow</a> Phan, Thao. "Amazon Echo and the aesthetics of whiteness." Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5.1 (2019): 1-38. <a href="https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/download/29586/24800" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/download/29586/24800</a> -- Conversations in Anthropology is a podcast about life, the universe, and anthropology produced by David Boarder Giles, Timothy Neale, Cameo Dalley, Mythily Meher and Matt Barlow. This podcast is made in partnership with the American Anthropological Association and supported by the Faculty of Arts &amp; Education at Deakin University. Find us at <a href="http://conversationsinanthropology.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conversationsinanthropology.wordpress.com</a> or on Twitter at @AnthroConvo