Judders, Jabs, and Slips: Automation, Anomalies, Movements

In May 2019, the “Automation and Me” event invited digital artists from around world to come together in an unused shopping center unit heart of Leeds, United Kingdom, critically respond explore themes automation, embodiment, identity. this article, we draw on Tobias Matzner’s argument that what algorithms are do “emerges a complex interplay social practices, material properties, discourses, mathematical abstractions, code” think through event. so doing, number interplays as they were felt lived by all us who participated it. We reflect experiences during workshops particular framework automation feminist new materialism how AI technologies surveillance smart environment replicated, one hand, existing oppressive prejudice and, other worked constantly recalibrate manipulate context humans nonhumans navigate.