Home Smart Home investigates Smart Technology and its ethical challenges. Since the mid-20th century, the ‘smart home’ has symbolised a vision of utopian domestic futures. However, recent advancements in smart home technology have raised new concerns, as these innovations are increasingly being used as tools for domestic abuse.

Goethe-Institut Glasgow invites visual artists Martina Morger and Lukas Zerbst as well as curator Tommaso Ranfagni to present parts of their work-in-progress art film Home Smart Home. Taking the video as a starting point, a panel joined by experts from the fields of media ethics and gender-based violence will critically discuss the growing prevalence of smart technology in homes and its (un)intended consequences, and how its technology has become a tool for domestic abuse.

Martina Morger, Home Smart Home, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow G3 6AX, 27 November 2024, 6.00pm

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