AI emerges as one of the greatest promises of prosperity for the future society. However, the advance of these technologies opens important issues: new digital gaps and the transparency of its operations, exacerbation of biases and social exclusion, environmental impacts, production of new algorithmic subjectivities, and the increase of fake news, among others.
In the FAIR Nucleus, instead of adopting a celebratory or fatalistic view of future AI scenarios, we seek to understand and anticipate the transformations and impacts of these technologies, recognizing their potential benefits and identifying their ethical limits. We focus on addressing the social, cultural and environmental challenges of AI in Chile and Latin America, considering not only the technological progress it enables, but also its contexts of use and the instabilities it generates on life on the planet.
To promote the design of ethical futures we will produce conceptual frameworks that contribute to the development of public policies consistent with the rights and freedoms of the living, recognizing the interdependence of AI with communities and territories.
We will create open spaces for collaboration, learning and experimentation in cutting-edge areas that foster research in dialogue with the humanities, arts, social sciences and computer science. We will promote the production of alternative, critical and situated practices of young researchers. In Núcleo FAIR we aspire to form a network of exchange between local and international communities from a Latin American perspective, experimental and in connection with the territory.
Researchers
Martin Tironi Rodó
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile’s sociologist. His academic interests are related to walkability and sustainable mobility, digital technologies, Smart cities, design anthropology, and maintenance and reparation practices. He is currently director of the UC School of Design and associate researcher at the...
Wolfgang Bongers Heinzmann
Associate Professor at Universidad Católica’s Faculty of Linguistics and Literature and expert in humanities, literature, and cinema. His work covers the interdisciplinary studies that aim to analyze and make visible literary and artistic operations, their aesthetic-political figures, their imaginaries, and critical...
Claudia López Moncada
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, she also co-directs the User Experience (UX) lab at the same institution, and is an Associate Researcher at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA). Her research and teaching activities are focuse...
Teresa Correa
Professor at the Faculty of Communication and Humanities of the Universidad Diego Portales, she currently serves as director of the Centro de Investigación en Comunicación, Literatura y Observación at the same university (CICLOS-UDP). Her research focuses on access and use of new technologies and digital inequali...
Marcos Chilet
Designer from Universidad Católica de Chile and Master of Arts in Interactive Media & Critical Media at University of London, Goldsmiths College. His teaching activity focuses on the problem that arises between society and the new technological transformations. Among his recent publications is the book 'Materia...
Manuela Garretón
Assistant Professor at Universidad Católica’s School of Design and associated researcher at Urban Complexity Lab, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Her research address hydric crisis data visualization, public policy, urbanism, neuroscience, subjective well-being. She has explored different forms of representa...
Mónica Humeres
PhD in sociology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Assistant professor at the School of Advertising, and researcher at CICLOS, both at Faculty of Communication and Humanities, Universidad Diego Portales. Her interests address 1) History of technology; 2) Communication and gender; 3) Citizenship and public policy. Curato...
Celia Lury
Founder, academic and researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. Her work comes from her interest in the ways in which 'live methods' enact social worlds. She works in interdisciplinary methodologies, feminist and cultural theory, sociology of culture, consumer culture, a...
Ulises Mejías
Ulises A. Mejias is Professor of Communication Studies and director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York, Oswego. His research interests include critical Internet studies, Internet theory and science, network theory and science, philosophy of technology, sociology of communication,...
Jhoerson Yagmour
PhD in Literature at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His work focuses on the study of the problem of time in art, especially in Latin American digital literature. He is interested in the relationship between art and chronopolitics in contemporary digital culture....
Serena Dambrosio
Architech, BArch., and MArch from Politecnico di Milano. PhD in Architecture and Urban Studies from FADEU UC. She is interested in the relationship between abstraction and neutralization rethorics on discourses about socio-technical progress and its material and environmental implications, mainly through destructive an...
Research assistants
José Tomás Labbé
Research AssistantHis current work focuses on the exploration of lost future scenarios through speculative pasts using generative artificial intelligences. In addition, he has contributed to research-creation projects on the impacts of AI technologies on the social and ecological environment. His areas of interest include the relationship between technology and society, and its cultural impacts seen from a critical-theoretical perspective.
Francisca Luco
Research AssistantPolitical Scientist from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research interests are the different ways in which AI shapes regulatory understanding and practice.
Dusan Cotoras
Research AssistantSociologist from Universidad Diego Portales. He studies AI’s logic and does socio-technical analysis of innovation processes. His current work focuses on researching controversies about AI from legislative discussions about its regulation.
Anaís Neira
Research AssistantLiterature MA from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her current work focuses on the crossovers, tensions, and dialogues between bodies and AI in performatic artistic manifestations. For example, Live Coding from Latin America or artwork that questions datafication of bodies and emotions to feed recognition, vigilance, and assistance AI systems.
Matías Valderrama
Research AssistantSociologist and Master in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Currently doing his PhD at Warwick University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. There he is mapping socio-technical controversies on algorithmic platforms and systems.
He has interests on Digital Culture, Media, Social Movements, Digital Methods, Vigilance Studies, Network Analysis, and Social Theory, among others.
Students
Constanza Rivano
PhDArt Degree, with a mention in Theory and History of Art, Master in Project Management and Organization, and Master in Marketing.
Her research focuses on the possibility of creating a sympathetic relationship with AI, considering a technological singularity context. Her academic explorations state that sympathy, as a human condition, will make possible to recognize AI as social agents.
She is currently doing her PhD in Philosophy, with a mention on Aesthetics and Art Theory, at Universidad de Chile.
Diego Rivera
PhDPsychologist from Universidad de Chile, MsC in Digital Society from Edinburgh University. Currently doing his PhD in Social Sciences at Universidad de Chile. His research focuses on digital labor, specifically on microwork networks, subjectivization processes in the network and its governance rationalities. He is also interested in digital methodologies, epistemologies associated with algorithmic governance, immaterial work, and virtual communities, specially fandom and slash communities.
Pablo Vallejos
PhDMaster in Literature, currently PhD candidate in Literature.
He researches digital culture through cultural studies, philosophy, and literature.
Iñaki Oyarzún
MasterHe researches human-computer interaction and final users-oriented AI models’ explainability, from the computer science field.
His interests and projects are related to work with users and the development of measuring and evaluating tools for user explainability techniques.
Joaquín Jiménez
PhDHispanic Linguistic and Literature Degree, Language and Literature teacher, and Master in Literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research focuses on both Latin American science fiction and narratives about technology, specifically on how the latter forms subjectivities.
He works from posthumanism, philosophy of technique, and wondering about digitality in the context of informational capitalism. He is currently doing his PhD in Philosophy, with a mention on Aesthetics and Art Theory, at Universidad de Chile.
Nicolás Díaz Bejarano
PhDMaster of Architecture, currently working on his doctoral dissertation at Pontificia Universidad Católica’s Architecture and Urban Studies program. He is interested in architectures that focus on the non-human in the contemporary city. Through its singularity and continuity with previous situations, data centers open debate and allow the display of different formal possibilities to rethink the way in which society interacts with data and AI.
He is now researching data centers to rethink the interaction with data and information and design possible futures.
Team
Serena Dambrosio
CoordinationArchitech, BArch., and MArch from Politecnico di Milano. PhD in Architecture and Urban Studies from FADEU UC. She is interested in the relationship between abstraction and neutralization rethorics on discourses about socio-technical progress and its material and environmental implications, mainly through destructive and extractive practices.
She has been part of different research and curatorial projects; has published papers and book chapters; has taught courses on History and Theory of Architecture and Project; and also has received scholarships from Politécnico de Milán, Chilean Government, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Canadian Center for Architecture, Het Nieuwe Instituut, among other institutions.
Matilde Grass
CommunicationsHispanic Linguistics and Literature degree, and Aesthetics degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Latin American Studies Master candidate at Universidad de Chile. Interested in interdisciplinary cultural studies, editing, and science and academic knowledge communication.
