The Trial of Superdebthunterbot - Helen Knowles

• LocationLondon
• Type
• Salary
• Artformfilm, visual arts
• ContactHelen Knowles helenknowles@yahoo.com

Description

Law School Tour of The trial of Superdebthunterbot

Film screening and Q and A

Thu 8 December 2016

18:45 – 21:30 GMT

S-2.18. Strand Building, Strand Campus, King's College london

Film by Helen Knowles

Narrative
A debt collecting company, Debt BB buys the student loan book from the government for more than it is worth, on the condition it can use unconventional means to collect debt. Debt BB codes an algorithm to ensure fewer loan defaulters by targeting individuals through the use of big
data, placing job adverts on web pages they frequent. Superdebthunterbot has a “capacity to self-educate, to learn and to modify it’s coding sequences independent of human oversight” (Susan Schullppi, Deadly Algorithms). Five individuals have died as a result of the algorithm’s actions, by partaking in unregulated medical trials. In the eyes of the International Ether Court, can the said algorithm be found guilty?

Background

The Trial of Superdebthunterbot was first performed as an artwork on the opening night of the exhibition Collaborate! at Oriel Sycarth Gallery. The work was performed by lawyers; Oana Labontu Radu and Lauries Elks who wrote the prosecution and defence speeches and TV actor, Mark Frost who was the judge. The jury was made up of the audience on the opening night of the exhibition. The algorithm is housed in a see - through computer made by artist Daniel Dressel which sits in the dock.

In May 2016, the performance was restaged the performance at Southwark Crown Court and a 45 minute film of the same title was shot. The film was premiered during the the Goldsmiths MFA show.

19.10.16 University of Sussex, Art and Law Research Cluster (Law Politics and Sociology)
3.12.16 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin for the Unboxing. Algorithms, Data and Democracy conference
8.12.16 Centre for Technology, Ethics Law & Society, King's College London.
24.1.17 The Westminster Law and Theory Lab
31.1.17 Queen Mary University London Law and Film club.
Cornell University Law school (date to be confirmed)

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The Trial of Superdebthunterbot - Helen Knowles