AI and Art

We aim to situate art, architecture and design practices within the discourse and development of AI technologies focusing on social-political, geo-political, ethical and aesthetic challenges. Research in this field includes:

• Facial recognition and algorithmic prejudice
• Data feminism
• Climate change data sets and visual information
• Deep fake synthetic images
• Coding and cryptography
• Rare earth mining and the shift from global to planetary thinking

Contemporary art, architecture and design practices can produce a discursive and critical space for investigating the philosophies of planetarity, producing antidotes to techno-fetishism by re-modelling pro-growth economics within sustainability debates. 

Contact us

TAIGAs focus area AI and Art is coordinated by Ele Carpenter, Professor at Umeå School of Architecture where she is Curator of contemporary visual art and culture, Professor of Interdisciplinary Art & Culture and Director of UmArts Research Centre.

Focus Area Coordinator

Ylva Fernaeus Associate professor

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+46 90 786 94 86

Eleanor Carpenter Professor, other position

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+46 90 786 70 07

Sarah Cook Visiting researcher

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Associates

Robert Collins Doctoral student

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+46 90 786 53 56

Carl-Erik Engqvist Artistic director

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+46 90 786 56 22

Markus Naarttijärvi Professor

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+46 90 786 59 09

Seda Özçetin Doctoral student

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+46 90 786 76 95