03.06 2023 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Presentation
In the loop : Call for application
08.04 2023
Call for Application
Any | One Day the Future Has Died.
27.10 2022 HGB Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Online Talk
Embodied Resistance: Healing and Liberation in the Age of AI
20.10 2022 Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
In-person collaborative creative meeting
Bureau des questions importantes
02.09 2022 — 17.09 2022 eeeeh!, Nyon, Switzerland
Pluriverse exhibition
Launch of the online platform
07.07 2022
Launch
Tender Intelligences Exhibition
07.07 2022 — 12.07 2022 (im)Mutable Studio, Los Angeles, USA
Pluriverse exhibition
Radical AI for Forest Conservation
Article Counter to the way forests are perceived within the majority of machine learning and conservation projects, forests are not just sites of data, they are homes, sources of spiritual solace and cultural importance as well as sites of a wealth of medicines and resources for local communities. Click to read
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Wisdom of not knowing and decolonial AI
Article The article was originally published on Gunda-Werner Institute Feminism and Gender Democracy Click to read
Refusal
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A [love] letter to [black and brown] [queer] and [disabled] [feminists], [dreaming] [beyond] AI
Carrier Bag The need to dream beyond becomes necessary when we recognise that some concepts [like AI] have no revolutionary or liberatory potential insofar that they are inherently welded to infrastructures of domination, extraction and oppression. Click to read
Refusal
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No Exit: Big Computing’s End Run Around User Rights and Refusal
Article Big Computing is making it harder to resist technological systems that make us less autonomous. Click to read
In the loop residency - Artworks Bretas's production for the DBAI residency consists of two pieces of art: “The Eye That Portrays.” and “Self-Archive”. Click to read
Artwork The room installation "Nichts als solide" can be understood as an examination of those traces that people leave in their surroundings and that are burned into landscapes and places. In conversation with poems by the Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko and the Afro-German poet May Ayim, which serve as a data set for an artificial intelligence, a monologue emerges in which a new, fictional lyric self is formed. Click to read
AI & Relationality
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Retrieval
Artwork Retrieval is a conversation between Guerilla theorist Neema Githere and artist Petja Ivanova inverting hierarchies ascribing technology as superior to the body. Reclaiming our body is central to the political struggle of transforming the social positions and relations of all non conforming subjects that capitalist white supremacist hetero patriarchy keeps devaluing and rendering vulnerable. Jean-Luc Nancys Concept of ecotechnics weaves visually through 3d scanned casts of Neema's and Petja's body parts, blending them virtually, materially, metaphorically and spiritually into each other. The visual language of the data body compared to photogrammetry of memory disc designs, copper wires weaving through magnets, refers to and amplifies the unspoken correlation between memories stored in bodies and in computing devices alike. Click to read
AI & Relationality
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X≠Y∴Z
Article What follows is an experiment in weaving relations between stories produced by an artificial intelligence trained on an archive of queer and trans life, and my experience of processing a heartbreak-induced depressive epsiode. This text weaves together excerpts of AI-generated text (*in italics*), reflections on the nature of this AI, theoretical musings and memoir in an effort to explore what kind of meaning is generated in the spaces between seemingly incoherent ideas. The task here, dear reader, is to wade through this squishy ecology of fragments, searching for what leaks as a result of their collisons. Click to read
AI & Relationality
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Light Bosons
Image Artwork The Light Bosons series was made to illustrate how close to the human psyche, AI and machine learning really are. Actually, I strongly believe what we call artificial intelligence (AI) today is, in reality, one layer of animal / human intelligence. Click to read
Machine Vision & Feeling
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A respite from algorithmic violence: Memes, platforms and content moderation
Artwork One example of AI is *machine learning* where machines are trained to make judgments about objects, people, places and other variables and materialities like humans do. Computers are fed large quantities of data, from databases or repositories and asked to identify patterns. Click to read
AI Violence
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Algorithms and the Convenience Matrix
Article In light of the rapid adoption of unregulated algorithmic optimisation around the world, unfortunately, many digital algorithms are neither fair nor a reflection of any ethical standard. The AI ethicist Sarah Wachter has put this into context: "if 96% of the world does not live in the United States, but a majority of our digital tools and platforms are based on US customs, political culture, and laws", how do we meaningfully talk about fairness in the digital world? Whose convenience are these digital tools and platforms really intended for? Click to read
AI Violence
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I Grew Up in a Click Farm
coaliton building "I Grew Up in a Click Farm" archives an ongoing investigation into the capacities and consequences of Philippine digital labor. The title twists a quote from fraudster and fugitive Alice Guo, a Philippine mayor and multibillionaire whose work is tied to Philippine offshore gaming operators and scam hubs in the region. Click to read
AI Violence
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Machine Unreadable
Article When I look in the mirror I don't see a man's face nor a woman's face, what I see is just me, my face. Many people probably read me as a man when I'm out in the street but I am non-binary and my face does not come with a binary gender attached. Click to read
AI Violence
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Queer Feminist AI FaceFilter
Artwork Queer Feminist AI - a game character from the latest project by BBB_, Songs of Cyborgeoisie, is intimidating and strong, soft-tempered and steel-bodied Artificial General Intelligence - an uncanny, techno-futuristic human-like robot, indistinguishably intellectually intelligent, but still controllable, hardwired vessel for digital soul with a capacity to feel, dream and master unbound creativity. Click to read
Video and Music Artwork Age of Data: A.I. Industry posits the question of our current epoch's economic and labor boom, that of the data industry, which now extends itself worldwide. Co-created between two A.I. systems and the artist, the piece aims to pose questions on the current direction of the A.I. and data industries towards humanity. Click to read
Patterns
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What does our feminist future look like?
Carrier Bag This virtual carrier bag, put together by Nushin Yazdani and Ulla Heinrich from the queer feminist collective dgtl fmnsm, is an invitation to immerse yourself in a stimulating and utopian world. A world in which artists and activists have long been laboring together on alternative futures from a feminist perspective - both aesthetically and politically. The selected videos, texts, works of art and audio pieces are made by people who help us to focus on the transformative potential of collective efforts – by dreaming up new futures together. Click to read
coaliton building A work on border violence from Battlefields to Roborders. The Walls Have Eyes – in the Author’s Note “The Power of Storytelling as an Act of Resistance” Petra Molnar writes: “Borders are violent. Yet they are also spaces of tremendous resistance and solidarity, often in very unexpected ways. Storytelling and story sharing is one form of resistance—and a profound and crucial element in any attempt to illustrate the opaque world of border technologies. [and] as writer Arundhati Roy reminds us: “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. […] I do not and cannot attempt to speak for all. Nor do I want to fetishize human suffering or add to the spectacle of violence at the world’s borders. Instead, what helps me is the idea of story stewardship.” Click to read
Future-Present Vibrations
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Heal-GPT (Slowed + Reverb)
In the loop residency - Music Story Heal-GPT (Slowed + Reverb) is a music story about healing Generational Physical/Psychological Trauma. The lyrics explore the shape of time as it relates to the nebulous borders of generations. Our present healing reverberates through time. Neither time nor healing is linear. Click to read
coaliton building I THINK THIS IS FAKE is a triptych of three videos, one in English, one in Portuguese and one in Spanish, with AI-generated music based on commentaries made about memes dealing with artificial intelligence, either as a joke, as fear, or as subversion. Each commentary was collected from users in those respective languages. Click to read
Future-Present Vibrations
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Sinthomatic Music / Digital Intimacy
Artwork In the album *Learning What To Do With Your Sinthome Instead of Enjoying It,* a deep learning model's auditory latent space is re-appropriated for the purpose of various *anti*-solutional experiments. Through the lens of a number of different frameworks—including Lacanian psychoanalysis, spectral séance, and homotopy type theory—the piece reimagines various *dysfunctional* audio signals generated from GANs and VAEs as adversarial probes into latent signal space. These adversarial perturbations function as an attempt to reveal the patterns and structures of a contemporary world-historical unconscious. Click to read
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Tequiologies: reclaiming the right to a dignified future
Carrier Bag This collection of resources is intended to inspire a journey of reflection and action for our collective dreams beyond AI. Click to read
Unionizing the speculative: Speculative fundraising towards generative AI - creative worker unionization
In the loop residency - Artwork How can creative workers unionize with generative AI? How can we as creative workers be accountable to AI-led automation? How did linotype and personal computers cause the demise of the International Typographical Union (ITU) which used to be one of the most influential unions in the US? What is the role and limitation of speculation as a strategy in this? Click to read
In the loop residency - Artwork Inspired by Sámi scholar Liisa-Ravna Finbog, this artwork explores axiological, epistemological, and ontological renewal in the context of technoscientific development. It conjures an origin for ancestral time and space in the future-present. The circle is a portal that represents sovereign new life springing forth from the land—a sanctuary and safe haven. The piece explores the regenerative interplay between plants, stones, and non-human kin, emphasizing the multiple forms of intelligence foundational to AI. Click to read
In the loop residency - VR artwork "Watering the Somatic Oasis" is a VR project that uses the immediacy of technologies and somatic techniques to “slow” down time. Viewers are invited to put on the VR headset and tune it to the guided meditation. Click to read
Artwork In the midst of scrolling and clicking, I invite you take a deep breath. Inhale, filling your whole abdomen with the blessings of oxygen. Exhale. Click to read
A Carrier Bag Filled with Glitches, Errors, and Artificial Stupidity
Carrier Bag We are internet teapot, a small Rotterdam-based research & design studio created by Karla Zavala Barreda and Adriaan Odendaal. The “internet teapot” is our sigil of sorts, based on an obscure internet error you might not have known existed. Just like you often find a webpage returning a frustrating 404 “Page Not Found” error, you might also stumble upon the absurd (yet equally legitimate) 418 “I’m a Teapot” error. It’s an actual, albeit nonsensical, HTTP error that the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF (charged with the serious task of setting internet standards and protocols) created in 1998 as a joke in case anyone would “attempt to brew coffee with a teapot” on the internet. Click to read