2024 (ongoing), Research Project
„Homeland“ is more than a place; it’s the narration of an ideal that often excludes those who don’t fit that ideal. As a collective narrative, it shapes our vision of living together and is thereby also an imagination and negotiation of the future. Silicon Valley’s techno-utopian visions position exploitative and isolationist futures as the only possible option — future becomes an exodus from co-presence. A vision of privately owned cities and space colonization, in which the global elite abandons any notion of solidarity-based co-habitation. In contrast, the idea of staying requires the preservation of a collectively habitable world, where we have the right to remain present and to be at home.
Anna Kraher (she/her) is a researcher working at the intersection of art, technologies, and societies. In her work, she explores the ethical and societal implications of artificial intelligence, data justice, and the speculation on just futures. Her current research focuses on the relationships between predictive technologies, temporalities, and power dynamics. Before joining the Ethics and Critical Theories of Artificial Intelligence research group at the University of Osnabrück, she has been part of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University and the non-profit organization AlgorithmWatch. She holds an M.A. in Design & Computation (University of the Arts Berlin/Technical University Berlin), and a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Gender Studies (Humboldt University of Berlin).
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