Streaming: Picture a STEMinist

October 28, 2020–January 21, 2021

Three recent documentaries chronicle the achievements and challenges of exceptional women working in science and technology. Livestreamed talks with women in STEM complement the films.

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Woman and the Glacier
Coded Bias
Picture a Scientist

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Streaming: Coded Bias
Shalini Kantayya
United States, 2020
November 18, 2020–January 21, 2021

Coded Bias shows how the widespread adoption of machine learning and automated decision making in financial services, human resources, voter registration, and law enforcement makes the racial and gender bias embedded in artificial intelligence an urgent civil rights issue.
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Streaming: Picture a Scientist
Sharon Shattuck, Ian Cheney
United States, 2020
Available for Two Days Only, October 28–29, 2020

Demonstrating the toll that discrimination and harassment take on women in the sciences, this documentary asks what is lost to scientific progress when the contributions of half the population are discouraged.
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Streaming: Woman and the Glacier
Audrius Stonys
Lithuania, Estonia, 2016
October 28, 2020–January 21, 2021

Observation supersedes explication in Audrius Stonys’s magnificent portrait of Lithuanian scientist Aušra Revutaite, who has spent more than thirty-five years on the Tuyuksu glacier in Kazahkstan studying the effects of climate change.
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Streaming: Picture a STEMinist

October 28, 2020–January 21, 2021

Marking 150 years since women were first admitted to Cal, BAMPFA is delighted to partner with the Women in Tech Initiative at the University of California to present a series of recent documentaries and talks about women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Riffing on the title of Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney’s documentary Picture a Scientist, this series features three films that chronicle the work and challenges of an exceptional array of inspiring women. Shattuck and Cheney show that old habits die hard, and despite over a century of trailblazing women excelling in every area of human endeavor, women with careers in STEM are still frequently hampered by harassment and implicit and explicit bias. Picture a Scientist shows what some courageous scientists have done to fight back. Coded Bias documents the research of Joy Buolamwini, Cathy O’Neil, and others into the fallibility of artificial intelligence and the barriers and dangers these algorithmic errors impose on vulnerable populations, particularly people of color. Moving from the digital to the physical world, our third offering reminds us that while some scientific discoveries happen suddenly, in many cases progress is incremental, requiring an accumulation of data and observation over the course of time. A case in point, Woman and the Glacier is a portrait of climate change scientist Aušra Revutaite and the glacier in Kazakhstan where she has been conducting research for over thirty-five years.

—Kate MacKay, Associate Film Curator

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Film Series Sponsors: Karen and Russell Merritt

Cosponsored by the Women in Tech Initiative, CITRIS, the University of California Office of the President, and 150 Years of Women at Berkeley. Thanks to Jill Finlayson, Women in Tech Initiative at the University of California, Gauthami Penakalapati, and Laura Sydell.

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University of California Office of the President
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150 Years of Women at Berkeley

Streaming: Picture a STEMinist

October 28, 2020–January 21, 2021

Available Films

Streaming: Coded Bias

Streaming: Picture a Scientist

Streaming: Woman and the Glacier