Salon Digital: Gabriel Pereira

Gabriel Pereira is Assistant Professor in AI & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), based at the Media Studies department and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC). His main research interest is the critical study of data and algorithms, especially as they intersect with vision/images/surveillance.

He considers organizing an essential element of research work today. He has organized multiple events between practice and research on critical computing, most recently the Con/Crit/Tec residency. He  also serves on the board of the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, as a Secretary of the Association of Internet Researchers, and is  part of the Tierra Común network. His research methods are interdisciplinary and collaborative, involving both forms of qualitative research and different forms of practice-based inquiry (e.g. arts-based, interventionist).

For example his short film “Future Movement Future – REJECTED” (together with Bruno Moreschi) is the story of a dystopian surveillance future that was barred by institutional refusal. It importantly reminds us about how total surveillance, the “almighty algorithmic eye,” may end up seeing-predicting much less than imagining-dreaming.

https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15126