[Ssnet_list] Reimagining Datafication: Minh-Ha Pham Talk and Workshop

[Daniela K Rosner via Ssnet_list]

FYI, upcoming lecture and workshop...

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From: Marika Cifor via Critfemtech <critfemtech at u.washington.edu>

Hello All,



We hope that you will be able to join us for our final Reimagining
Datafication speaker events of the year: Minh-Ha T. Pham will be visiting
UW on May 22 and 23. The event details are below:



Workshop: *Intellectual Property and Its Discontents with Minh-Ha T. Pham*
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 12 – 1:30 p.m.

This lunchtime workshop invites critical considerations of intellectual
property rights (IPR), particularly from the perspective of those
historically on the losing side of the IPR regime. To begin the discussion,
Minh-Ha T. Pham will draw on case studies from her recent book *Why We
Can't Have Nice Things* (Duke University Press, 2022), which examines how
social media has become the key battleground for regulating the meanings
and value of fashion copies.

Registration recommended: https://simpsoncenter.org/form/pham-salon-rsvp
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Public Talk: *Artificial Intelligence and Fashion Models, or Business as
Usual in the Global Fashion Supply Chain with Minh-Ha T. Pham*
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Fashion brands from Louis Vuitton to Levi’s are using artificial
intelligence (AI) -generated fashion models on their websites and in their
ad campaigns. These synthetic models are created from data scraped from the
internet and, in some cases, from the biometric and visual data of
individual human models. The technology is new but, as Minh-Ha T. Pham’s
talk will explain, the conditions that make possible the use and expansion
of AI-generated models are as old as the fashion supply chain itself.
AI-generated models don’t mark a transformative shift in the fashion
industry; they’re another example of global fashion’s long history of
extractivism. As such, the answers for how to fight the automation of
modeling work also lie in the long history of fashion workers’ struggles.



*Minh-Ha T. Pham*’s research focuses on the intersection of race, gender,
class, and the fashion supply chain under global and informational
capitalism. She’s the author of two books: *Asians Wear Clothes on the
Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging *(Duke,
2015) and *Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on
Fashion, Ethics, and Property* (Duke, 2022).

Please share these events far and wide! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Marika (on behalf of Anna, Daniela and Regina)


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Daniela K. Rosner, Associate Professor
Co-Director, HCDE MS Program
Sieg Hall, room 409
Dept. of Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
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