GOGBOT café are talks events organised by Planetart and its partners, to explore the theme of the festival together with specialists, artists and our public.

This year Under the theme 𝙄𝙉𝙁𝙊𝘾𝘼𝙇𝙔𝙋𝙎𝙀 𝙉𝙊𝙒, 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 GOGBOT 2021 dives into the transformation of our information ecosystem in a time of synthetic media, deepfakes, populism, physical distancing, trust crisis, rise of conspiracy theories etc...
We are wondering what is the impact of the democratisation of high tech tools on our society and its communication networks.For this first café we collaborate with Sickhouse to introduce the theme.

With :
 Interview with 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗼𝘁  director of GOGBOT, about Infocalypse as the festival theme

 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝘂𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻, trend watcher, internet entrepreneur, advisor, author and columnist on the impact of new technology. About deepfakes and synthetic media and their impact on our society.

  𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝘂𝗶𝘀, lecturer-researcher Communication Hogeschool Rotterdam. About REAL FAKE / The influence of virtual influencers.

 𝗔𝘀𝗸𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗸𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘃 - producer of the docu : Welcome to Chechnya, from David France
https://www.welcometochechnya.com/ About the use of tech digital vale as protections.

𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙮𝙖 is also available to watch via the stream of Concordia from Wednesday 21-04 to Sunday 25-04
https://stream.concordia.nl/welcome_to_chechnya

 Video screening of Kesson live coding + AI generated visuals based on a sound recording of Chebedajha (aka Jeannette Petrick)