Giles Lane·Jun 17, 2021A couple of other ethics toolkits covering bias and fairness in algorithmic decision making and in…http://proboscis.org.uk/projects/unbias/
Giles Lane·Oct 25, 2019A Poetics of DataPersonal data is not only the traces of our actions in the world — contributed, sensed, detected and recorded online, but a yoke that is…
Giles Lane·Jul 16, 2019A Calculation is Not a JudgementWhen human judgement is drained from a system and reductionist rules are applied to complex situations, the results can lead to terrible…
Giles Lane·Jun 12, 2019The Data SublimeIn February 2014 Marina Jirotka and I met as participants at Blast Theory’s annual two day seminar, Act Otherwise. That year’s theme was…
Giles Lane·May 17, 2019Tacit Knowledges, Living Archives“the important thing is not to offer any specific hope of betterment but, by offering an imagined but persuasive alternate reality, to…
Giles Lane·Apr 10, 2019Smart Design: Inclusive by DefaultLast April I went along to the GLA’s Smart London Camp, an unconference bringing together people from a range of backgrounds to discuss…
Giles Lane·Mar 20, 2019Civic Agency: a vision & planCivic Agency is an initiative aimed at encouraging people, at grassroots level, to engage with the social, cultural and political issues…
Giles Lane·Mar 4, 2019Hiding in Plain SightThis post draws together some of the many strands that have led to a new project — “ Materialising Data, Embodying Climate Change” — which…
Giles Lane·Feb 23, 2019Creativity & Technology in a New RenaissanceCommissioned in April 2018 by the Institute of Art & Ideas as an introduction for a research report on the “New Renaissance” in creativity…
Giles Lane·Nov 5, 2017The Charter of the Forest & The New EnclosuresNovember 6th 2017 is the 800th anniversary of The Charter of The Forest — a landmark document in English law which guaranteed common…
