Welcome to CDT’s 2024 Tech Prom!
We’re excited to have you join us today, November 14th. Tech Prom brings together over 1,000 leaders and innovators in tech policy from across government, industry, and civil society for a night of networking and conversation about emerging issues in the tech policy landscape.
Dress code: Business / cocktail attire
Parking: Available on-site. Metro four blocks away. For more info: http://bit.ly/anthemparking.
For the second year in a row, CDT is adding the voice of artists to our list of tech policy changemakers. The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is excited to bring you the second-annual Tech Prom Artist Exhibition, a one-night-only group installation showcasing a collection of talented creatives and artwork exploring the impact of data and algorithmic systems at the heart of technology policy discussions happening today.
- Sophia Brueckner – a futurist artist/designer/engineer who researches how technology shapes us. Since 2011, Brueckner has taught Sci-Fi Prototyping, an internationally renowned course combining science fiction, extrapolative thinking, building prototypes, and technology ethics at MIT, Harvard, RISD, Brown, and the University of Michigan. Her romance series pulls in pieces from two bodies of work – Captured by an Algorithm, memorializing Kindle Popular Highlights on porcelain commemorative plates, and Unrequited United, which extends an invitation to viewers to express solidarity with the anonymous highlighters. These series capture these transient collective emotions into multiple physical forms.
- Creative Theory Agency – a Black-owned, full-service creative agency mission-driven to bring creative equity and cultural impact to marketing moments – will exhibit ‘Ad Intelligence: New Age Advertising,’ a reflection of advertising’s ability to serve as society’s most honest mirror and an extension of their WHAT PROMPTED YOU? campaign. Working alongside talented students from Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism and Communications and professor Dr. Jana Duckett, the agency embarked on an exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping this reflection of American culture.
- Curry Hackett – an award-winning transdisciplinary designer, public artist, and educator, currently teaching at The Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. He is exhibiting a large scale, AI-generated collage entitled “In the Woods, We See Things,” which takes inspiration from the hush harbor: structures erected by enslaved Black folks to conduct religious activity in secret. The landscape is peppered with televisions and digital screens, speculating on Black modes of gathering, and their relationships with media, technology, and nature.