KEYNOTE: Surveillance, Data Collection, the Redaction of Love, and the Complexity of Identity
0The three-day Connected Learning Summit concludes with a keynote by Diana Nucera aka Mother Cyborg, who will share an artistic exhibition of fiber works, addressing critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all. Mother Cyborg’s work opens up analog and tactile spaces for audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. She draws from over 16 years of experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. Her work brings poetry, music, fiber arts, and the power of emotional connection together alongside personal experience and systemic analysis. “By demystifying technology through performance, craft, objects, and media, I hope to create analog touchstones for those who are afraid of the digital world to experience it differently and to ultimately develop technical knowledge with these same people. Together, we can nurture, artfully shape, and invoke the future of technology — rather than being passively controlled by it.”