Venue:Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Gabriel-Riesser-Weg 3
60325 Frankfurt
AI technologies are fundamentally changing how images are created, edited, distributed, described and viewed. Their influence on visual culture and contemporary art practice is one of the most visible phenomena in this field, which is dominated by opaque technical processes.
The comprehensive thematic exhibition will occupy both exhibition spaces of the SCHIRN with around 40 works, including video installations, graphics, sculptures and photographs. The SCHIRN is presenting around 25 international artists, including Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer, Nora Al-Badri, Nouf Aljowaysir, Julian Charrière, Grégory Chatonsky, Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Agnieszka Kurant, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, Sasha Stiles and Taller Estampa.
A broad spectrum of topics is examined, including resources and environmental factors as well as questions of perception, machine vision or facial and emotional recognition. The works address topics ranging from micro-labour and the establishment of alternative histories to possible visions of the future. Other aspects include so-called AI slop and slopaganda (the use of AI-generated images as a new form of political propaganda). A series of time capsules - small cabinets of curiosities - link the present with the past in the show, thus embedding the current changes brought about by new technologies in a historical context.
An exhibition of the Jeu de Paume, Paris, in co-operation with the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT.
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