{"id":974,"date":"2023-10-24T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=programme&p=974"},"modified":"2024-02-22T08:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T07:59:26","slug":"critical-ai-in-the-art-museum-practices-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"programme","link":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/programme-item\/critical-ai-in-the-art-museum-practices-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical AI in the Art Museum: Practices and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Computational Culture Lab at the Australian National University (ANU<\/a>) has organised a fantastic program of online talks and discussions about Critical AI in the Art Museum: Practices and Politics<\/a>. The keynote talks by Hito Steyerl and James Bridle will be screened online at UmArts for researchers in Ume\u00e5 to collectively watch and discuss. You can join individually or come along to the UmArts Research Studio. All the talks are recorded and available online at the links below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this moment of environmental, political and pandemic accelerated crisis, art has become increasingly entangled with the cultural logic of analytics platforms<\/a>, Silicon Valley imaginaries<\/a> and planetary scale computing<\/a>. And yet, in the art museum, \u2018the digital\u2019 has largely been understood as a tool, rather than a cultural form with specific socio-technical affordances and politics. Under these conditions, various AI imaginaries\ud83d\udcad have begun to prosper across the art museum\u2019s operations. For the exhibitions team, AI is to be celebrated as a tool of a new artistic avant-garde \ud83d\uddbc; for senior managers, AI is to be championed as a talisman of the institution\u2019s contemporary relevance \ud83d\udc4f; for communications teams, AI promises predictive insights into audience behaviours, maximising \u2018engagement\u2019\ud83e\udd33; for development teams, AI offers a gateway to lucrative relationships with the tech sector\ud83e\udd1d; for museum eductators, AI is a troubling object that demands new pedagogies and literacies \ud83e\udd14. How might artists and cultural workers resist AI\u2019s veneer of novelty and avoid being instrumentalised as an onboarding tool<\/a> for Big Tech ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc49 Opening Keynote: Hito Steyerl<\/a> \ud83c\udff4 Subprime Visibility<\/em>. Tuesday 31st October \ud83d\udea9 \ud83d\udea9 Recording & Resources <\/a>\ud83d\udea9 \ud83d\udea9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc49 Panel Discussion: Crisis in the Archive: on the future commons after AI <\/em>with Nicolas Malev\u00e9<\/a>, Eva Weinmayr<\/a> & more. Tuesday 7th November. \ud83d\udea9 \ud83d\udea9 Recording & Resources<\/a> \ud83d\udea9 \ud83d\udea9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc49 Panel Discussion: On the Limits of Curatorial Knowledge and the Digital <\/em>with Victoria Walsh<\/a> (Royal College of Art), Bassam El Baroni<\/a> (Aalto University), Kay Watson<\/a> (Serpentine Galleries) and Seb Chan<\/a> (Australian Centre for Moving Image). Tuesday 14th November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc49 Panel Discussion: Data, Models, Bodies, Publics<\/em> \ud83e\udd89 with Machine Listening<\/a>, Caroline Sinders<\/a> and Vladan Joler<\/a> on Tuesday 21st November for 90 minutes. Register<\/a>. \ud83c\udf44 Note slightly later time! \ud83c\udf44 [08:30 London \/ 09:30 Berlin \/ 14:00 Mumbai \/ 16:30 Singapore \/19:30 Canberra]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc49 Closing Keynote: James Bridle<\/a> \ud83d\udc7d Thursday 30th November for 90 minutes. Register<\/a>. [08:00 London \/ 09:00 Berlin \/ 13:30 Mumbai \/ 16:00 Singapore \/19:00 Canberra]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to keep in touch about further events and resources? \ud83d\udc40 Join the newsletter<\/a>, or follow the Computational Culture Lab on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critical AI in the Art Museum<\/em> is brought to you by the Computational Culture Lab<\/a>, in the School of Art and Design<\/a> at The Australian National University<\/a> with financial support from the College of Arts and Social Sciences. Organised by Katrina Sluis and Erica Molesworth\ud83d\udc4b, contact us at admin [at] criticalai [dot] art  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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UmArts is leading research in Art, Architecture, Design and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Ume\u00e5 University in partnership with the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program \u2013 Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) and Ume\u00e5 University\u2019s Centre for Transdisciplinary AI (TAIGA). In 2023, curator Sarah Cook joined UmArts as the WASP-HS Guest Professor in Art and AI in partnership with Bildmuseet, Ume\u00e5 School of Architecture (UMA), and Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design (UID).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Art and AI working is a group is chaired by Guest Professor Sarah Cook, and includes UmArts postdocs, mentors and artists in residence who are working with AI to share their research and develop new collaborative projects. The group considers how arts research can contribute to the social and ethical discourses of AI and machine learning, working in partnership with museums and galleries, artists and curators. The programme critically interrogates the aesthetics and politics of AI, collaborating with, and challenging the algorithmic logic underpinning hardware and software development. We are interested in how creative encounters can allow publics to experience and engage with the ethical considerations and societal shifts that widespread use of AI will bring and feeding that back into AI development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Octopus Club <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Octopus Club is open to all. It is a book club to close-read texts, artworks and films which investigate distributed intelligence and networked knowledge. Please email Emelie El-Habta<\/a> UmArts Research Co-ordinator you would like to join. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next text is \u2018The Maniac\u2019  by Benjam\u00edn Labatut<\/a> about the life of John von Neumann nominated by Dimitri. This is contrasted with \u2018Klara and the Bomb\u2019 by artist Crystal Bennes,<\/a> about Klara von Neumann who was married to John, nominated by Ele. This comparison will provide an interesting insight into the history of computing and AI from biographical and feminist artistic perspectives. We will have a short discussion about the books with tea and biscuits after the working group meeting and find a date for a full discussion in March\/April. (Some of us are also reading Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s \u2018Klara and the Sun\u2019 for the full trio of titles!) next meeting to be confirmed for March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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