POST
20.00 - 22.30
Driekoningenstraat 16, Arnhem
Language: English
Entrance: €2.50 excluding service costs, including one drink
This event is sold out.
On Thursday evening, March 16, POST is organizing an in-depth evening entitled ECHO. During this evening, people from different fields will shed light on the theme of the Artificial Incantations exhibition: Artificial Intelligence, Occultism and how we can take a critical look at the digital technologies that have such an impact on our daily lives
Oumaima Hajri, Matthew Mullane en one of the artists of the exhibition Ginevra Petrozzi will share their thoughts on this topic for twenty minutes, offering a mosaic of perspectives
Oumaima Hajri is an interdisciplinary Moroccan-Dutch researcher on a mission to decolonise, demystify and deconstruct AI. She wants to ensure that emerging technologies are developed in ways that are beneficial for all. How? By researching its ethical and societal impact. Her background includes a BSc in Political Science, a MSc in Data Science & Society, and a MSt in AI Ethics & Society. During ECHO she will discuss how AI technologies need to be examined through a cultural and ethical perspective in order to stop and prevent their negative outcomes for society, especially vulnerable minorities.
Matthew Mullane is an Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at Radboud University, and received his PhD from Princeton University. He has published on the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of contemporary digital technologies impacting architecture, including social media, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. During ECHO he will speak about "algorithmic revivalism". Intriguing, right? Mullane coined this term to describe how generative AI systems are bound to "revivalist" logics originating in 19th century ways of categorizing and knowing the world. Nowadays these can be employed to create "counterfactual" evidence on worlds not yet existing.
Ginevra Petrozzi is an interdisciplinary designer and artist exploring the possibilities of mysticism and the occult within the landscape of contemporary techno-politics. In this context she took the role of a digital witch, reclaiming the archetypal role of the sorceress as a healer, and as a political rebel. During ECHO she will guide the audience through rituals, images and ideas from her creative production. Be prepared for Ginevra to open up new paths to rethink our relationship with new technologies in the age of surveillance capitalism.
Photo ECHO Symbiosis Series 10 November 2022