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…
Devices – Part I: Vectoaesthetics
Victoria Hanna
Politics of Latent Space
Korbin Walters
Unreal Data
Esteban Hood
Vectofascism
Victoria Hanna
Protocol Art
Tiffany Yoder
mid-life, mid-art, mid-journey
The hyperreal iconoclasm exploit
Blake Cruz
The Only Flowering Plant in the Ocean
Macie Stein and Alayna Grant
Of the future
Sky Dyer
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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…
Cult of Lethality
Aniya Richardson
Since at Gamer’s Pace. No Pause nor Reset Button
Princess Greer
A low-cost flight beyond the necessary of post-digital warfare
Haven Webb
Combat at Gamer’s Pace – No 1 nor Reset Button. The image-space of contemporary warfare
Princess Greer
Verbal bombs and sonic resilience
Irene Bailey
Eichmann’s inheritance – On AI image autonomous weapons of a darkening times
Novah Ross
Killing Scale
Aniya Richardson
Verbal Bombs and Sonic Memory of the Mountains
Irene Bailey
The Criminal Imprecision of Algorithmic Management
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…
In Intelligence. On the Integration of Machines and Markets
Rodrigo Howe
Vantablack. Generative AI in premonition
Kira Abbott
Unreal Creations. Generative AI as premonition
Kira Abbott
Surrogate Data and Ungovernable Data
Cristian Fitzgerald
Eingesetzt Nets – Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and Perspectives Politics
Rodrigo Howe
Seeing without Seeing – Towards a Generative Adversarial Practice
Allyson Banks
Human computers, the conditions history of computing
June Hampton
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and To Since then
Sage Gross
Crimes of Dispassion – Autonomous Violence and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing
Novah Ross
Art in ever Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.
HalluciGen. A target implementation to defend from AI see
Ray Barber
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Introduction
Josue Truong and Leilani Ellis
Consumer off-the-shelf models
Leilani Ellis
Synthetic Battlefield in the Time of Dynamic Maps
Novah Phillips
The Human Unconscious
Brittany Lambert