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What Models Make Worlds: Critical Imaginaries of AI
The Ford Foundation Gallery is pleased to present What Models Make Worlds: Critical Imaginaries of AI, a group exhibition featuring artists working across artificial intelligence systems to envision more just futures. Curated by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Meldia Yesayan, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on how current and future technologies might be otherwise imagined. What Models Make Worlds was originally presented at OXY ARTS, Occidental College鈥檚 public art space and cultural platform under the title Encoding Futures in 2021.
What Models Make Worlds assembles the work of artists who map the limits of our current algorithmic imaginaries to move beyond them in critical world building acts. The exhibition features the work of Algorithmic Justice League, Morehshin Allahyari, Andrew Demirjian and Dahlia Elsayed, Stephanie Dinkins, Aroussiak Gabrielian, Maya Indira Ganesh with Design Beku, Kite, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Mimi 峄宯峄メ粛ha, Niama Safia Sandy, Caroline Sinders, Astria Suparak, Mandy Harris Williams, and Kira Xonorika.
The exhibition鈥檚 title reworks a line from feminist technoscience scholar Donna Haraway, who writes, 鈥淚t matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.鈥� It reflects the featured artists鈥� interest in speculative worlding and in opening up possibilities to reimagine algorithmic systems.
鈥淲ith this exhibition,鈥� writes Meldia Yesayan, 鈥渨e hope to rethink how we engage with our communities and imagine a future in which femme-identifying, BIPOC, and queer creators control our algorithmic worlds.鈥�
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The Ford Foundation Gallery is pleased to present What Models Make Worlds: Critical Imaginaries of AI, a group exhibition featuring artists working across artificial intelligence systems to envision more just futures. Curated by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Meldia Yesayan, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on how current and future technologies might be otherwise imagined. What Models Make Worlds was originally presented at OXY ARTS, Occidental College鈥檚 public art space and cultural platform under the title Encoding Futures in 2021.
What Models Make Worlds assembles the work of artists who map the limits of our current algorithmic imaginaries to move beyond them in critical world building acts. The exhibition features the work of Algorithmic Justice League, Morehshin Allahyari, Andrew Demirjian and Dahlia Elsayed, Stephanie Dinkins, Aroussiak Gabrielian, Maya Indira Ganesh with Design Beku, Kite, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Mimi 峄宯峄メ粛ha, Niama Safia Sandy, Caroline Sinders, Astria Suparak, Mandy Harris Williams, and Kira Xonorika.
The exhibition鈥檚 title reworks a line from feminist technoscience scholar Donna Haraway, who writes, 鈥淚t matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.鈥� It reflects the featured artists鈥� interest in speculative worlding and in opening up possibilities to reimagine algorithmic systems.
鈥淲ith this exhibition,鈥� writes Meldia Yesayan, 鈥渨e hope to rethink how we engage with our communities and imagine a future in which femme-identifying, BIPOC, and queer creators control our algorithmic worlds.鈥�
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