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foto: Maciej Jakobielski
Experiment overview
A collaborative dialogue featuring a queer artist Kinga Michalska, that explored the complex intersection of gender identity, technological development, and future human evolution.
The event created space for critical examination of how emerging technologies simultaneously reinforce existing gender biases while potentially offering pathways to transcend traditional gender constructs.
Main objectives
The project addressed the relationship of gender and technology through:
Artistic exploration: featuring a queer Canadian artist’s work that challenged conventional gender representations and imagined alternative futures
Technological critique: examining how AI systems and algorithms perpetuate gender biases through underrepresentation of diverse groups in training data
Future speculation: considering whether human evolution might eventually transcend binary gender constructs as technology reshapes our understanding of identity
Achieved results
The event facilitated meaningful dialogue about technology’s contradictory roles in gender expression.
By highlighting concrete examples of algorithmic bias - such as AI systems misidentifying Black people as gorillas - alongside artistic visions of post-gender futures, the discussion created connections between current technological limitations and speculative possibilities.
Participants gained deeper understanding of how limited data representation shapes technological outcomes and impacts marginalized communities.
Main reflection
This exploration revealed the profound tension between technology’s potential to liberate us from gender constraints and its tendency to encode existing biases.
The lecture demonstrated how technological systems mirror and amplify societal prejudices when diverse perspectives are excluded from their development. Yet the conversation also illuminated how these same technologies might eventually contribute to evolving beyond binary gender constructs altogether.
The event underscored the critical importance of inclusive representation in technological development if we hope to create systems that serve all humanity rather than reinforcing historical patterns of discrimination and violence.