Generative Processes

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This panel will explore the ongoing influence of machine learning systems, examining the cognitive effects of recommendation algorithms, search engines, and generative AI on artistic practice. The discussion will focus on the control mechanisms embedded within these systems, particularly the potential "diffractions in perception" that arise when users offload cognitive tasks onto algorithms developed for corporate and vested interests. The conversation will address AI's integration into everyday activities, both online and offline, and its impact on artists' practices as tools and methods become intertwined with the influence of the algorithms themselves.

Panelists

Andrea Khôra (Artist & Researcher), Paola Torres Nuñez Del Prado (Artist).  

Convened by

Daniel Shanken (UmArts). 

AI generated still from the animation The Pits, by Daniel Shanken

Image Daniel Shanken

Profiles

Andrea Khôra is an artist and researcher based in London. Her work centers around the malleability of reality on both personal and societal levels. Andrea's practice-led Ph.D. project, Under the Influence: Expanded Technologies of the Mind, investigates the intersection of expanded consciousness and hegemonic institutions through artistic research and writing.Through her research, Andrea examines how consciousness can be transformed and manipulated with psychedelics and other mind-altering methods, and how this intersects with established power structures. Through her art, she seeks to explore the implications of these interactions and provide insight into the complex relationship between altered states and institutions — focusing on psychedelics intersections with capitalism, western medical systems, and the military-industrial complex.

Paola Torres Nuñez Del Prado explores the boundaries and connections in between tactility, the visual and audio related to the human voice, to nature, and to synthetic ones whose listening is often considered less harmonious, such as machine or digital noises. Her work is essentially complex: she explores the limits of the senses, examining the concepts of interpretation, translation and misrepresentation, so as to reflect on mediated sensorial experiences while questioning the cultural hegemony within the history of Technology and the Arts.

Dimitri Coelho Mollo (TBA)