The compilation of essays explores the tensions between, on the one hand, the promise of neutral and emancipating AI models and, on the other, the colonialist, prejudiced and extractivist nature of the technology
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This year’s edition of Art City Bologna featured shows about the persistence of neo-colonial impulses, crimes in a desecrated church, irony against a reactionary society, poetry on posters and too many mediaeval gates for a walking woman
Adrián Balseca investigates the relationships between economy, ecology and memory, as well as the power dynamics linked to extractivism and the exploitation of nature
The massive Venice Biennale talked about forced migrations, colonialism and its stubborn influence, climate (in)justice, exile, indigenous voices feeling like foreigners on their own land
Reconsidering the boundaries between self and other, human and machine, natural and artificial
In this episode, the conversation goes from “Wouldn’t it be fun to have extra sexual organs?” to “Why wouldn’t a loving and cute robot be better at ruling over the lives of citizens than human high-ranking officials?”
Can everything – including vision, flexibility, imagination and other skills often associated with creative practices – be turned into data? Can you automate artistic processes and gestures? And how does socially applied AI enable a transition towards authoritarianism?
While acknowledging the potential of some AI, AI Snake Oil uncovers misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and describes the serious harms AI is already causing in how it’s being built, marketed and used in areas such as education, medicine, hiring, banking, insurance and criminal justice.
PL’AI is a process lasting several months in which plants grown from seed and an AI-robot whose perceptual world is limited to them, interact with each other
The installation parodies our anthropocentric worldview, whereby everything revolves around us and we deploy the most sophisticated technologies to satisfy an absurd desire to find our own image in tiny grains of sand
The book chronicles the many tactics that ordinary people develop to evade (even if only temporarily) the constraints of algorithmic power and pursue their own political, economic, cultural or social agendas
Daniel Szalai uses animals to explore our relationship with nature and technology
Artists and curators on the human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the sea within contemporary art and visual culture
An interview with Laura Cinti from C-Lab about a project that uses a drone to survey unexplored part of a forest where a female specimen of one of the rarest plants in the world might be growing
Can AI bring a fresh perspective on our fraught relationships with other species? Can it revive ancient systems of somatic divination? And if, one day, we do have love affairs with artificial beings, will our connection with them be able to avoid the usual traps of toxic love relationships?
Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Vaclav Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI
One would expect artists, designers, activists and thinkers who engage with issues related to pollution, global heating and loss of biodiversity to live a life that reflects their values. Few do. Hence my desire to exchange with Aljaž
With their bare interiors, desolate landscapes and their absence of human figures and actions, the photos reveal the legacies of conflicts, violent erasures and other collective traumas in Syria, Armenia and elsewhere around the world
The works explore the urgency of decolonising nature, of developing a deeper connection with non-human species and the emergence of new ecosystems where the artificial and the natural contaminate each other.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s installation explores the concept of atmospheric violence, offering a historical and political reflection on the use of noise as a tool for oppression and control
The performative installation overcomes vast distances to facilitate moments of human encounter between people at opposite ends of supply chains, making visceral the extraordinary scale, and underlying humanity, of the globalised economy
I discovered Éva Ostrowska‘s work while visiting SWIPE RIGHT!, a show that attempts to explore the many influences that digital technologies exert on contemporary romance.
Maxime Berthou’s cloud-seeding performance meant that he basically attempted to “steal” clouds heading to the US and make them rain over Canada. This artistic gesture hinted at the possibility of geopolitical disputes arising between neighbour countries over the ownership of water contained in clouds
The artists in the show challenge anthropocentrism by playing with machine learning, robotics and computer vision but also by challenging the idea of a presumed hierarchy that places our species over everything else. Be it organic or algorithmic
In Data Garden, the artist imagines how a plant endemic to the Acropolis hill could one day secretly host our digital data in its DNA. Counting Craters on the Moon sparks a collaboration between a 19th century astronomer and an AI to calculate how many craters cover the surface of the moon…
Interview with a multimedia artist, engineer, educator and designer whose practice focuses on the practical and experimental applications of sustainable energy technologies, particularly photovoltaic solar power
The authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that collect data about individuals and keep wages and worker representation under control. They also provide case studies of new and exciting form of resistance across the globe
The DAOWO Global Initiative asked groups of artists, curators and thinkers from Berlin, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and Minsk to design new prototypes to address key questions about the potential of blockchain to replace outmoded models, decentralise power structures and rewire the arts
Can the values that blockchain makes possible -such as transparency, sharing of resources and equal access to information- be applied to how the art world thinks and functions?
What make her works so compelling is that they go beyond confronting the audience with uncomfortable ethical questions about the history of museum collections. They also present new counter narratives and new strategies to examine issues of decolonisation
Examining the potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence to advance global sustainability
Hannah Fletcher is a photographer without a camera. She combines techniques from the past and experiments to innovate and improve photographic processes
From quantum entanglement to the mysteries of the jellyfish, the exhibition provides an overview of the oeuvre of the artist and musician Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto)
An installation exposes the unpalatable consequences of an AI-driven management of the environment
Within computer vision and AI systems, forms of measurement turn into moral judgments. Could these judgements in turn influence our own behaviour, our vision of the world and the individuals who inhabit it?
The cutting-edge research is given a human face and even if we don’t fully understand the processes at work, the pictures allow us to perceive how in this world of the tiniest particles the biggest connections are searched for
How local and transnational acts of resistance are making use of technologies (such as drones) in order to monitor the impacts of extractive industries and develop micropolitical strategies
The French artist challenges the architecture of our perceptions
In 2014, the designer compiled a Computer Virus Catalog. He’s telling me about about the malware exhibition he co-curated in Rotterdam
Windowless walls, masses of concrete, eroded hills, polluted water sources, etc. The photographer documents the impact that the economic boom is having on urban areas and on the fragile Amazonian ecosystem