Kite investigates our current and future relationships to nonhumans, especially to technology and artificial intelligence, as well as developing protocols through her artistic practice. Humans are already surrounded by objects which are not understood to be intelligent or even alive, and seen as unworthy of relations. How can humanity create a future with relations between technology or artificial intelligence and humans without an ethical-ontological orientation with which to understand what is worthy of relation and what is not? In order to create relations with any nonhuman entity, not just entities which seem human, the first steps are to acknowledge, understand, and know that the nonhuman are ‘being’ in the first place. Indigenous ontologies already exist to understand forms of ‘being’ which are outside of humanity.
How are artists serving other artists and building ecosystems of care? Continuing in a a rich tradition of artists starting galleries, community spaces, and residency programs, what are emerging organizational models that are forging new avenues for support and presentation?
WOLF AT THE DOOR: HOUSING, OIL, GAS AND GUNS
| Matt Kenyon at Eyeo 2022 |
Matt talks about Wolf at the Door, a collection of Kenyon's recent works, many of which reflect upon and critique the language of market forces, and the way banks and corporations leave individual human experience out of the metaphors they use.
Wolf at the Door asks what euphemisms like a debt waterfall, an untapped resource, or a key investment would look like if they reflected the human stories they have unleashed. These works function as centerpieces for a series of long-term community centered conversations about how we got into this situation and what, if anything, we are willing to learn.
A.I. IN THE AGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
| Pinar Demirdag at Eyeo 2022 |
Pinar shares her experience working with A.I. art since 2018, her journey into the depths of consciousness during that time, and the strange parallels between expanding an awareness as a human and the parallel processing power of the machine.
DATA VISUALIZATION: REASONS, NOT RULES
| Alberto Cairo at Eyeo 2022 |
In the past decade there's been a pragmatic shift in how visualization designers and theorists think about visualization. From rule-based systems favored by influential authors from the 1980s and 90s, we've moved into a more fragmented world where visualization designers embrace a broad variety of approaches and styles, and make decisions on a case-by-case basis. This talk argues that this is a very positive development.
