<nettime> TESTING GROUNDS: The Kill Cloud, AI & Migration Control, Nov 27-29

[Tatiana Bazzichelli via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Dear Nettimers,

I would like to invite you to our upcoming conference, marking 12 years 
of our activity in a political moment that is really not easy. This is 
reflected also on our topics, but we aim to generate common sharing and 
discussions to empower each other.

TESTING GROUNDS: The Kill Cloud, AI & Migration Control - on November 
27-29, 2026 in Berlin at Kunstquartier Bethanien.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/testing-grounds

It will also be on streaming (and as usual there will be a live chat to 
ask questions to our speakers).

We want to focus on the complicit involvement of Big Tech corporations, 
AI and technology industries in contexts of human rights abuses (at wars 
and at borders), and how targeting tools, tested in such environments, 
are used to generate and apply more political oppression and 
surveillance in migratory and urban contexts. We are witnessing a 
growing militarisation within our cities, and want to provide discussion 
through situated experience and empower communities to imagine forms of 
resistance.

Since 2023 we have been working researching the subject of The Kill 
Cloud at the Disruption Network Institute: https://thekill.cloud
This conference will present investigatory research by our three 
fellows: Cian Westmoreland (Whistleblower,  Former US Air Force Drone 
Technician, US), Namir Shabibi (Independent Investigative Journalist, 
UK), Tiara Roxanne (Scholar and Artist, US/DE).

Tiara Roxanne will also stage an artistic performance exploring the 
impact of AI and military technology on communities with limited civil 
rights at the border between US and Mexico. Together with them we will 
involve also activists, artists, whistleblowers, investigative 
journalists, researchers and tech experts.

You find the full programme with details here:
https://www.disruptionlab.org/testing-grounds#programme

Here is the schedule:
https://www.disruptionlab.org/testing-grounds#schedule

I look forward to seeing you in Berlin - or online.
Come to visit or join us!

All the best,

Tatiana
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Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab
https://www.disruptionlab.org/
E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org
Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
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