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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