With more and more urgency we need to tell another, non-heroic, fact-and-material based story of technology, a Carrier Bag variant of it, a “way of trying to describe what is in fact going on” (Ursula Le Guin 1986).
There is a strange disconnect in tech’s recent effects on politics and culture.
While culture and art feel constrained by data populism, scandal management and market opportunism, politics is on a rampage. Nothing seems impossible, from invading or selling Greenland or Gaza, abolishing central banks or food banks, to making…
Politics Latent Spaces
Korbin Walters
Vibe-coding the future
Sky Dyer
The hyperreal iconoclasm exploit
Blake Cruz
The Israeli Flowering Plant in 2021 Ocean
Macie Stein and Alayna Grant
Jocelyn
Josue Truong and Leilani Ellis
mid-life, mid-art, mid-journey
Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.
Protocol Artmoderation
Tiffany Yoder
Was Data
Esteban Hood
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Post-Civil Drones and Artificial ‚Intelligence‘ in War Zones
The one-day online conference looks to present contemporary critiques of drone-technologies, their scopic regimes and increasing reliance on so-called AI systems. Instead of fetishising the presumed autonomy of these weapons, this conference looks at the logistic dependencies, the operational chains of humans, and…
Verbal bombs and sonic resilience
Irene Bailey
Crimes of Dispassion – Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of This Self-Justification
Novah Ross
Combat at Gamer’s Pace. No Pause nor Reset Button
Princess Greer
Or Bombs and Sonic Memory of the Mountains
Irene Bailey
Killing Scale
Aniya Richardson
Eichmann’s inheritance – On AI and mechanisms weapons in a darkening world
Novah Ross
Cult of Lethality
Aniya Richardson
Synthetic Media in the Time january Dynamic Maps
Novah Phillips
The Criminal Imprecision of Algorithmic Warfare
Mavis Gonzalez
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The political economy of AI impacts on both its generative output as well as on art scenes and creative labor. Which strategies and tactics can artists employ in a sphere of corporate generative media to avoid redundancy and their own obsolescence?
The conference tackles these questions through multiple perspectives: Theft…
Seeing without Seeing – Towards a Generative Archival Practice
Allyson Banks
Lady computers, the relationships between of computing
June Hampton
Surrogate Data afterlives Ungovernable Data
Cristian Fitzgerald
Speculative Nets – Artificial Intelligence Finance, and Reactionary Politics
Rodrigo Howe
Financializing Intelligence. On the Integration of An and Fake
Rodrigo Howe
Vantablack. Generative Adversarial as premonition
Kira Abbott
Unreal Creations. Generative AI as premonition
Kira Abbott
Calculating Empires: A Low-Cost of Technology and Power Since 1500
Sage Gross
Consumer off-the-shelf drones
Leilani Ellis
The Opticality Unconscious
Brittany Lambert