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The Lahore Digital Arts Festival (LDF) brings together artists and audiences to explore the interface of art, technology, and everything in between, to celebrate Pakistan's burgeoning digital culture. As interest groups in art and technology continue to emerge, LDF aims to foster discussion on art accessibility, creative interchange, and experimental expression. People from various walks of life, including artists, designers, scientists, enthusiasts, professionals, and others, will come together for the event. By doing this, LDF seeks to promote digital creativity and broaden the art scene in Pakistan and throughout South Asia.
The Pakistani art community has been unable to adequately address the digital arts due to a conservative inclination towards the traditional arts and their role in life of women. Traditional art galleries in this country have yet to embrace technology advancements in artistic forms on a larger scale, despite the growing popularity of digital art nationwide.
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The Effects of the Digital World on Daily Lifestyle
The democratic and inclusive nature of the digital world is its promised, but the real world is far different. The idea that AI tools and technology may reduce the workload for human workers and make life safer and more convenient while freeing up time for humans to engage in human activities is being promoted by the growing automation and reliance on AI tools and technology. However, the expenses disproportionately impact women and minorities, while the rewards frequently favor a particular group of people. Who gets to build online spaces and who is safe there are impacted by questions of presence and access. Women are especially concerned about cyberbullying and harassment, even with the promise of anonymity protection.
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The issues of presence and access have an impact on who can establish online communities and who can feel secure there. Even while anonymity seems safe, women are especially vulnerable to cyberbullying and harassment. Beyond the imbalanced power dynamics inherent in interactions within the digital sphere, women continue to bear the brunt of caregiving, mostly in the form of unpaid labor, which sustains life on Earth while males are free to follow their aspirations in the metaverse.
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Women vs. Machines
The Lahore Digital Arts Festival is in its third year of programming, with the subject "Women Vs. Machines." The festival seeks to confront the evident and obscure obstacles that women and gender encounter in the technology industry. LDF invites artists to look for original and creative solutions to issues that acknowledge their complexity and inspire, support, and usher in a gender-inclusive digital future.
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A Place for Feminism in A.I and Robotics
This idea aims to take into account gender perspectives on the future of digital art. This can refer to the digital platform themselves, which raise concerns about safety, engagement, and access, as well as the systems and infrastructure required to support them. For instance, in robots and AI. Although "female" gendered robots or avatars are widely used, women are not always welcomed or accepted in the environments where these models are created or programmed.
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Women in tech are still a rare sight, and their contributions to the early and ongoing technological achievements are disregarded and lost from history. For too long, women have been perceived as helpless or incapable of using or contributing to technology. Men tend to lead businesses and sectors focused on the future of digital environments.
