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Indie Lens Pop-Up: Coded Bias
When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies fail more often on darker-skinned faces or the faces of women than others, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in the technology that shapes our lives.
7 - 8 p.m.
Join audiences nationwide on Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for a virtual Indie Lens Pop-Up screening of Coded Bias featuring a talkback with director and producer Shalini Kantayya and film protagonist Joy Buolamwini, a computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab. We’ll also hear from a group of pioneering women in technology, as they share their journeys and discuss ways to increase inclusion of women and people of color working in the tech industry.
This event is hosted by Indie Lens Pop-Up, in collaboration with Georgia Publc Broadcasting, Algorithmic Justice League, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College, Bud Werner Memorial Library, City of Mesa, Data & Society, Durango Public Library, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Global Peace Film Festival, Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking, Kansas City Public Library, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Panhandle PBS/KACV, PBS Hawai‘i, Red River Theatres, Rollins College, Tillotson Center, and Yale Film Archive.