Aug 28 2024 26 mins 1
Can everything – including vision, flexibility, imagination and other skills often associated with creative practices – be turned into data? Should artists feel threatened by AIs that compose music, make animation movies or write novels? Or is there something intrinsically uncomputable in the artistic mind? Are predictive algorithms creators’ friends or foes? Can you automate artistic processes and gestures?
Artist Sanela Jahić collaborates with engineers, lecturers in creative and social computing as well as experts in health informatics to investigate workers’ subordination to machinery, the possible automation of artistic practices and the role of algorithms in the transition towards authoritarianism.
Additional content
Sanela Jahic
https://sanelajahic.com
NO TO AI, YES TO A NON-FASCIST APPARATUS
https://sanelajahic.com/works/no-to-ai-yes-to-a-non-fascist-apparatus
Books and authors mentioned in the conversation:
Matko Meštrović
https://monoskop.org/Matko_Me%C5%A1trovi%C4%87
Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, 2007 (Basic Books)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
Dan McQuillan, Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, 2022 (Bristol University Press)
https://danmcquillan.org/pages/book.html
COLOPHON
Host: Régine Debatty
Guest: Sanela Jahić
Recording: Régine Debatty
Music, editing and audio mix: Gašper Torkar
The Future Behind Us podcast series
Curated by: Régine Debatty
Coordinated by: Janez Fakin Janša
Produced by: Marcela Okretič
Production:
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2024
Part of:
PXXP•XXV: Speculation and Decay
Conceived and co-organised by:
Aksioma
For:
Pixxelpoint – 25th International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices
Produced and co-organised by:
Nova Gorica Arts Centre
In the framework of:
GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica 2025
Supported by:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica
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