David LaRocca: “Gender and Representation: Negotiating Evidence in the AI-Era Security Serial The Capture”

DEMOSERIES Seminar presents:

David LaROCCA (writer, editor, documentary filmmaker)

“Gender and Representation: Negotiating Evidence in the AI-Era Security Serial The Capture”

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne / ISJPS Espace Gisèle Halimi, 1 Rue de la Glacière, Paris 75013

Advanced registration required via: events.demoseries@univ-paris1.fr

Abstract:

As we collectively hold our breath while artificial intelligence makes it claim to civilization-wide disruption, Ben Chanan has cleverly brought us two seasons of The Capture (BBC One) in which DI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) must negotiate her love life (with the boss, no less than the Commander of SO15, Special Operations), her female colleagues of varying ranks, and the specter of deploying AI-manipulated evidence for genuine legal convictions. Representation is on trial here in at least two senses: that old standby, women in the workforce; and now with an AI twist—whether evidence that we can see with our own eyes can be trusted.

Bio:

David LaRocca, Ph.D., is an American writer, editor, and documentary filmmaker. Educated at Buffalo, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and Harvard, he’s the author or contributing editor of sixteen books, including The Philosophy of War Films, The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image Sound, Fiction, Truth, and Metacinema: The Form and Content of Filmic Reference and Reflexivity. Editor of The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema, he and Sandra Laugier recently published Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind. www.davidlarocca.org.