All times eastern time zone.
Friday
12:00 Opening Remarks
12:15-1:45 Panel 1: Forensic Practice and Its Critiques
Malachy Browne, New York Times, “Visual Investigations at The New York Times”
Patrick Brian Smith, University of Warwick, “Futurist Forensics”
Bora Erden, SITU Research, “Eavesdropping: On the Comparative Counter Forensic Value of Light and Sound”
2:00 Conversation, Q&A
Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture
3:30-5:00 Panel 2: Forensic Contexts
LaCharles Ward, University of Pennsylvania, “Suspended in Exclusions”
Greg Siegel, UC Santa Barbara, “Railway Noise, the Forensic Phonautograph, and the Problem of ‘Delicacy’”
Tory Jeffay, Dartmouth College, “The Missing Frames: Media Forensics in the Rodney King Trial”
Saturday
12:00 Demonstration
Giancarlo Fiorella, Bellingcat, “Geolocating Images in Conflict Zones”
2:00-3:30 Panel 3: The Real and the Fake
Sandra Ristovska, University of Colorado Boulder, “Deepfakes, Epistemological Uncertainty, and the Challenges with Visual Legal Evidence”
Joshua Glick, Bard College, “The Synthetic Real: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Craft of AI Documentary”
Mitali Thakor, Wesleyan University, “Artifice Intelligence: Deep Fake Porn Panic and the Production of Didactic Fakes”
