Let’s talk about artificial intelligences, let’s talk about co-creation, let’s talk about automation, let’s talk about technical reproducibility, let’s insist on the analogical body of the digital, let’s critically review the relationship between technology and knowledge, let’s think with/from images:
- As Deleuze and Guattari state in A Thousand Plateaus (1980), a territory is a paradigmatic framework of thought. A territory has a life cycle: it germinates, constitutes its borders and expands. The process of expansion outside the already mapped territory operates as a mechanism that implies undoing borders and putting ourselves at risk. Heading towards the unknown.
- Terra ignota is the term that for centuries defined that which was beyond the limits of the territory known to the western gaze. That which was outside the frontier and had not been mapped. Also associated with danger or unknown challenges, it was also the place to locate legends and fantastic creatures, reflecting the fear of that unexplored territory.
- Socially we accept the term Artificial Intelligence, as an image to define the technique of automation of computer processes aimed at reproducing, through algorithms, patterns of the human brain. For example, the analysis and classification of data, learning, decision making, text production, image production, etc.
In this sense, this exhibition brings together 7 artistic processes developed within the framework of the research group GizaArtea. Thanks to the exhibition space, dialogues are established between the different questions that the artists use as a research horizon. All of them respond to the increasing presence of artificial intelligences and the automation of production -through algorithms- in all areas of life.
Thus, the different ways of approaching the technologized reality of our time, which coexist in this exhibition, give special relevance to questions such as the frameworks that define the nature of intelligence or the relationship between progress and knowledge. They also respond to the identification between digital technologies and the ideas of good or truth, and, of course, they question the very place of artistic creation in this scenario.
Walking on the margins of the map, the artists of GizaArtea find themselves in the desire to explore approaches to technology from a poetic and critical look, collaborating with different types of machines and modeling the reflection that makes the image thought.