Caroline Sinders

Caroline is a machine-learning designer, user researcher, artist and digital anthropologist who is passionate about language, culture and images. For the past few years, she has examined the intersections of natural-language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment and politics in digital and conversational spaces. Caroline is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency that focuses on machine learning, user research, designing for the public good and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation and others. Caroline has been a fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured in MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Slate, Quartz, and the Channels Festival. She holds a master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Feminist Data Set Feminist Data Set is an ongoing multi-year art project that combines lectures, workshops and calls to action for collecting feminist data. What is feminist data? Feminist data can be art, essays, interviews or books that explore feminism and the feminist perspective. The data set seeks to combat bias and introduce the possibility of data collection as a feminist practice. It aims to produce a slice of data to intervene in larger civic and private networks. As it moves toward design, the series explores how data and interfaces can be agents of change within the machine-learning systems that are used by the public and private sectors every day. This work has been shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SOHO20 Gallery, SPACE Art and Technology Center, De-leb Banner Repeater and the Resonate Festival. The project was shortlisted for a prize here. An interview about the current iteration of Feminist Data Set can be found here.