The ADM+S Centre uses ethnographic research and people-centred documentary practice to research and advocate for ethical, inclusive and responsible automated decision-making.

How is Automation Impacting Public and Shared Space?

The management of public space has become a priority of commercial operators who now mediate our engagement with those spaces. What are the individual and collective impacts of these changes, and what regulatory modernisation is required to ensure we don’t get left behind?

In ‘How is Automation Impacting Public Space?’ researchers provide insights from their work on drone delivery, automated crowd control technologies, and digital twins, drawing connections between the nuances of each and demonstrating a wider need for regulatory modernisation.

Length: 12 minutes

She’s Not Alone (2022)

She’s Not Alone is a collaborative short film about the everyday stories of ridesharing and gender-based violence. It invites us to consider how trust and safety are outsourced to automated systems and how real stories can help us to address the real problems of automation in transport. Ultimately the film asks: whose help do we need to ensure we’re not alone in our desire for a better future with technologies of automation?

Length: 9 minutes
Selected for Sydney’s International Film Festival 2023, Women Deliver Arts & Film Festival 2023, and Melbourne CINEVERSE Film Festival 2023.

Credits

Cast: Michelle Keatin & Alex Thomson
Producers: Jeni Lee, Emma Quilty &  Isabella Conti-Morato
Associate Producers: Zoe Condliffe & Isabelle Fisher
Collaborators: She’s A Crowd, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society (ADM+S) & Monash University’s Emerging Technologies Research Lab⁠
Research Consultants: Sarah Pink & Thao Phan
Crew: ⁠Tom Hodge, Dylan Eagle, Veronika Chekmareva,  Torum Heng,  Yiduo (Paul) Dong,  Chi-uh Neylon, Lucy Tsuchida, & Jiyoon Lee
Composers & sounds: Aurora Conway, Jason Sweeney & Ella Neumann

Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads: Micaela (2021)

Micaela Schmidt is a blind advocate and access consultant living in Albury-Wodonga. This film highlights the challenges she faces as a blind person navigating automatic transport systems and electric vehicles.

Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads is a collection of three short films by ADM+S Research Fellow Jeni Lee which takes us on a journey with two blind and one deaf person as they move around urban and regional spaces. The short films illustrate the challenges and opportunities that emerging technologies pose for diverse groups as they commute. It draws on the principles of Communication for Social Change (CSC) to explore the question: How could technology best assist us to move freely in the future?

Length: 5 minutes
Screened on SBS on Demand during 2022-2023.

Credits

‘Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads’ is collaborative project from the team at Monash University’s Emerging Technologies Research Lab; Jeni Lee, Sarah Pink, Thao Phan, and Emma Quilty as well as key project participants, Brenton Lillecrapp, Micaela Schmidt, Orhan Karagoz and Darren Moyle.

The project was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads: Orhan (2021)

This film follows Orhan Karagoz, an anthropologist from the northern suburbs of Melbourne, as he tries out some Orientation and Mobility apps with his Vision Australia trainer, Darren Moyle.

Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads is a collection of three short films by ADM+S Research Fellow Jeni Lee which takes us on a journey with two blind and one deaf person as they move around urban and regional spaces. The short films illustrate the challenges and opportunities that emerging technologies pose for diverse groups as they commute. It draws on the principles of Communication for Social Change (CSC) to explore the question: How could technology best assist us to move freely in the future?

Length: 5 minutes
Screened on SBS on Demand during 2022-2023.

Credits

‘Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads’ is collaborative project from the team at Monash University’s Emerging Technologies Research Lab; Jeni Lee, Sarah Pink, Thao Phan, and Emma Quilty as well as key project participants, Brenton Lillecrapp, Micaela Schmidt, Orhan Karagoz and Darren Moyle.

The project was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads: Brenton (2021)

This film follows Brenton Lillecrapp, a learning mentor who lives and works in Adelaide, and his experience using technology with a hearing disability.

Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads is a collection of three short films by ADM+S Research Fellow Jeni Lee which takes us on a journey with two blind and one deaf person as they move around urban and regional spaces. The short films illustrate the challenges and opportunities that emerging technologies pose for diverse groups as they commute. It draws on the principles of Communication for Social Change (CSC) to explore the question: How could technology best assist us to move freely in the future?

Length: 5 minutes
Screened on SBS on Demand during 2022-2023.

Credits

‘Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads’ is collaborative project from the team at Monash University’s Emerging Technologies Research Lab; Jeni Lee, Sarah Pink, Thao Phan, and Emma Quilty as well as key project participants, Brenton Lillecrapp, Micaela Schmidt, Orhan Karagoz and Darren Moyle.

The project was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Superbots (2024)

This short film observes and engages with students from Brentwood Secondary College during their two-day interactive Industry Immersion program ‘Superbots’, that explores the history, ethics, and societal influences on Voicebots and voice-assisted software development.

The program, co-designed by Monash Tech School and Monash University’s Faculty of IT and supported by industry mentors, allows students to ideate, test and construct their own voicebot personality. This film is part of the ADM+S AI Rewired project, shining a light on how communities use AI systems to support social justice.

Length: 8 minutes

Credits

Produced by Jeni Lee in collaboration with Prof Yolande Strengers and Monash Tech School. 

Highway to the Sky (2022)

Highway to the Sky is a short film that documents a speculative arts workshop with neuro-diverse participants as they use painting and stop motion to imagine future transport mobilities.

Developed in partnership with Monash University’s Emerging Technologies Research Lab, the film is part of the Future Automated Mobilities project which aims to surface impacts of automated decision-making (ADM) that haven’t been accounted for and explore barriers and biases propagated and amplified by ADM.

Length: 8 minutes

Credits

Project participants:
Eleanor Perkins
Micheal Noble
Alexandra Hill

Filmmaker:
Jeni Lee

Research and story consultants:
Prof Sarah Pink
Dr Emma Quillty
Dr Thao Phan

Registered Art Therapist:
Isabelle Asford, The Art to Wellbeing

Post Sound editor:
Cliff Jones

Music:
Jason Sweeney