AI Humanities: Reclaiming Artificial Intelligence 2024-06-28 | As Director of the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH), I curate a programme to look at artificial intelligence from the perspective of the humanities. I want to revisit and reclaim AI as an endeavour of the humanities, deeply philosophical, artistic and creative, a project for the liberal arts.
An Oral History of the Early Internet 2024-06-28 | A book based on a series of conversations with activists, artists, and early practitioners about the utopian promise of the internet.
From Radio to Audio 2023-12-10 | Digital transformation for radio: From broadcast to audio, from airtime to programmatic advertising.
NYU Abu Dhabi 2019-11-19 | Starting fall 2019 I work full time at New York University Abu Dhabi as creative technologist and professor of interactive media.
The U.N.’s Powerful New Way to Aid Refugees 2018-08-17 | Breaker Magazine has a very detailled story about our refugee blockchain project we did for the United Nations:
United Nations: “We could replace the services offered by banks with blockchain.” 2018-04-17 | The most exciting work we have done so far with my company was to build and set up a blockchain-based payment system for the United Nations’ World Food Programme (as described earlier here: Blockchain-based accounting and payment system ).
Algorithmic Art and Data Creativity 2016-12-08 | by Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Joerg Blumtritt Strata + Hadoop World Conference Singapore 2016
Algorithm Ethics - The Next Chapter 2015-12-18 | Who does your computer think I am? In our everyday life every person is digitally represented in a multitude of IT systems based on invisible algorithms, which in a more or less pervasive way controls pieces of our lives; Which way to drive, what movies to watch, but also how to accept or decline offers and applications, or how to priorise medical treatments.
Algorithm Ethics - Talk at Strata Data Conference 2015-06-29 | Talk by Majken Sanders and Joerg Blumtritt given at Strata + Hadoop World Conferences 2015 and 2-16 in London, Singapore, and San Jose.
SXSW 2015: Mobile Data Storytelling with Datarella 2015-03-15 | German Startup Elevator Pitch SXSW, Austin, TX. 15.3.2015
