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| <nettime> TECHNOVIOLENCE: Confronting Systematic Injustice, Sept 19–21, Berlin |
Dear Nettime List,I would like to invite you to our next conference, Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice, happening on Sept 19–21 2025 at Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin) and on streaming:
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolenceAs usual, we have the possibility to ask questions to our panelists using our live chat on the page of the conference.
TECHNOVIOLENCE brings whistleblowers, artists, journalists and technologists together to expose how war surveillance, migration management and state oppression are shaped by invisible, digital forces. Featuring revealing insights from former FBI agent and whistleblower Terry Albury and tech policy advocate Ifeoma Ozoma, the conference investigates the role of AI, border technologies, algorithmic policing, and digital fascism in deepening global injustices. This event explores how artistic resistance and investigative practice can generate new forms of evidence, visibility, and accountability.
# PROGRAMME ## Fri 19.9 KEYNOTE · 16:40–18:00 Breaking the Code of Silence: From Whistleblowing to Systemic Change in TechIfeoma Ozoma, Director of Technology Policy at the Kapor Centre and co-sponsor of California’s Silenced No More Act, delivers a powerful keynote on how legal tools like nondisclosure agreements enable discrimination and silence tech workers. Known for blowing the whistle on racism and sexism at Pinterest, Ozoma has since transformed personal resistance into systemic reform. Her keynote unveils how tech corporations weaponise secrecy and how workers can fight back through legislative action, financial leverage and collective organising.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#breaking-the-code 18:30–18:45 · On Platform Brutality: A Preliminary Book LaunchGeert Lovink will present his new book, Platform Brutality, coming out late September (Valiz, 2025). It is third part of a triptych after the books Sad by Design (2019) and Stuck on the Platform (2022). After decade of docile facilitation and sneaky extractivism Silicon Valley is now showing its ugly face. This is not only initiated by Trump II but also coincides with the overall stagnation and regression in terms of social media usage. Platform Brutality is a scathing diagnosis of our digital condition in the aftermath of COVID, grappling with a world overwhelmed by platform decay, social media addiction, and a psychic toll.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#platform-brutality PANEL · 18:45–20:45 · Dismantling the Algorithmic GazeHeba Y. Amin, Ghost Agency co-founders Anni Garza and Gro Sarauw, and activist Jennifer Kamau analyse how forms of algorithmic and technological control are emerging at borders, in militarised contexts and in urban environments, spanning examples from Germany to Mexico and North Africa. The panel also discusses how we can imagine forms of resistance and empowerment based on social justice, using opacity as a means of resistance, as well as technological tools and collective action to counter epidemic violence. Moderated by Geert Lovink.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#dismantling ## Sat 20.9 PANEL · 16:00-18:15 Exploited, Extracted, Erased: The Global Logic of Big TechRima Sghaier, Sarah Ciston, Lya Cuéllar and Safa Ghnaim, trace the systemic and extractive logic of Big Tech, examining how today’s digital infrastructures are weaponised against vulnerable communities. Topics include AI systems accelerating warfare, targeting campaigns on social media, erasing Palestinian voices, building techno-colonialist utopias in Central America and exploiting workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Speakers unpack the intersections between digital repression, xenophobia, and platform complicity, while offering critical tools for understanding and resisting technoviolence in its many forms. Moderated by Nil Uzun.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#exploited KEYNOTE · 18:45–20:30 Secrecy, Surveillance & Grassroots ResistanceWith FBI Whistleblower Terry Albury & investigative Journalist Lynzy Billing. Terry Albury, a former FBI counterterrorism agent whose leaks revealed systemic racial profiling and surveillance tactics, will speak publicly outside of the U.S. for the first time. Lynzy Billing a British photojournalist and filmmaker of Afghan-Pakistani origins whose Emmy-winning animated documentary "The Night Doctrine" exposes the human toll of CIA-backed night raids in Afghanistan, offers an equally compelling contrasting lens. They map the intersection of secrecy, state violence, and grassroots work, showing how insider courage and deeply personal reporting can disrupt entrenched systems of digital and real-world oppression.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#secrecy ## Sun 21.9 WORKSHOP · 14:00–17:00 Weaving Resistance in the Age of Digi-tal Fascism & Tech OligarchyDigital rights advocate Rima Sghaier leads a hands-on workshop confronting digital fascism and platform-enabled repression. Participants will trace online harassment campaigns, especially in the SWANA region, and explore how Big Tech fuels technoviolence against marginalised groups. Centering those most excluded by digital systems, the session offers tools to reclaim visibility and imagine collective resistance.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#workshop TICKETS: https://tickets.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence/ More info: https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab https://www.disruptionlab.org/ E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: nettime-l-owner@lists.nettime.org