What is called ‘artificial intelligence’ today claims the simultaneous positions of universal mirror, rational oracle and perfect executor – diagnosing the present, auguring true destiny and manifesting an optimal outcome. But what are actually realised as AI systems are synthetic generators of inequitable patterns, myopic harvesters of the past that lock in social hierarchies and the logics of division and exclusion.
We say none of the above and call for a joyous reclamation of the future – navigate to the marginal and the lacunar, between the ‘not-knowing’ and the ‘unthought’, into matter and across species. Our approach
brings together the interested and the affected through critical practice, poetics, performance research and participation. By spawning a multiplicity of alternative imaginaries, we counter the proliferation of
heroic, despotic and dystopic AI narratives, and elaborate the possibilities emergent in art to interrogate the contemporary.
Just One Word After Another
Sioscadh
Atlas of the Liminal
Die Zwitscher-Maschine 2.0
Interference Spores
…presemic utterances and undulations…
I Thought I Was Hearing Citizens
Octopussy
© Jonathan Boyd, Johnny Golding, Matt Lewis, Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel, Tom Simmons, Shira Wachsmann, John Wild