Nora Al-Badri will discuss which new questions, in the realm of politics of representation and
collective memory, can be raised through the lenses and voices of AI as an artistic tool. Will the subaltern start speaking
or are we even amplifying the good old colonial power structures and oversimplify the world with limited machinic abstraction?
Short bio: Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary and conceptual media artist with a German-Iraqi background.
Her works are research-based as well as paradisciplinary and post-colonial. She lives and works in Berlin. She graduated in
political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and is a lecturer at the Eidgenössische Hochschule
(ETH) in Zurich. Her practice focuses on the politics and the emancipatory potential of new technologies such as machine intelligence
or data sculpting. Al-Badri’s artistic material is a speculative archaeology from fossils to artefacts or performative interventions
in museums and other public spaces, that respond to the inherent power structures.
The event is taking
place as part of the lecture ‘Global Contemporary Art’ (Art History 4) by Anita
Hosseini. All those interested are very welcome to attend!More
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