Orit Halpern
Orit Halpern is a Lighthouse Professor and the Chair of Digital Cultures at Technische Universität Dresden. Her research is on histories of cybernetics, design, and artificial intelligence. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a history of automating decision making and the second examines the history of experimentation at planetary scales in design, science, and engineering. Her most recent book with Robert Mitchell is titled The Smartness Mandate (MIT Press, 2023). It examines how we have come to believe that digital computing is essential to human survival, and how “smart” technologies and ideologies are remaking planetary futures. She is also the director of the Digital Cultures Research Group and co-director of The Schauffler Lab; two groups bridging the arts, environmental sciences, media, and the social sciences in the interest of re-imagining technological futures.
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