Tracing the intersections of AI and critical race theory, join us for a conversation interrogating new technologies and their wider social, cultural, and political impacts on artistic production and more-than-human futures.
Ramon Amaro, Maria Dada, and Maya Indira Ganesh will use Donald Rodney’s Autoicon as a springboard, situating Rodney’s work in the social and political landscape of the time, and drawing connections to the historical legacies of AI up to the present day.
In a critical examination of the power dynamics and Western-centric models of knowledge enabled by recent advancements in technology, we will interrogate how these factors come into tension with how we conceive creativity and futurity. In mediating on Autoicon as a precursor to digital immortality and transhumanism, this conversation will tease apart the resulting fractures and disjunctures that these ideas and complex technologies have given rise to.
Can we unlock the transformative possibilities of AI by centring more intersectional approaches? And what artistic and more-than-human futures lie ahead of us with continuing advancements in new technologies?
This panel talk accompanies our current exhibition Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker.
