Conference on Tue, Nov 5, 10-18 at AdBK Aula
With: Elisa Giardina Papa, Orit Halpern, Francis Hunger, Vladan Joler, Kevin B. Lee, RYBN, Felix Stalder, Hito Steyerl
The political economy of AI impacts on both its generative output as well as on art scenes and creative labor. Which strategies and tactics can artists employ in a sphere of corporate generative media to avoid redundancy and their own obsolescence?
The conference tackles these questions through multiple perspectives: Theft and extraction of data from users to train large generative AI models. The replacement of human labor, or the simulation of machine labor through human labor. The environmental impact of heavy computation.
How do these become visible within generative output? How do they modify the conditions of artistic labor and what are strategies of resistance against corporate extraction? How can art and art education react in the face of the serious challenges to arts‘ aesthetic and material environment?