A panel discussion between Dr Alexandra Anikina, Dr Stephen Cornford, Professor Geoff Cox (London South Bank), and Professor Jussi Parikka (Aarhus) on the relationships between image and infrastructure.
Critical artist and researcher Wesley Goatley’s work examines AI technologies and their relations to society, geopolitics, and the climate crisis. In this talk, he will expose some of the common myths of AI and their concerning impact on labor, communities, and the climate, and how critical art and design practice can respond to and challenge these conditions. Goatley’s work is included in AI: Who’s Looking After Me, currently at the Science Gallery, London.
Alexandra Anikina’s talk “Affective Scroll, Assembly Line: Automating Platform Spectators and Labour on TikTok” in the series Feeds & Flows: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ephemeral Image Cultures at Bauhaus University Weimar.
Photographic imaging technologies have long been associated with important historical shifts in art practice. Cornford’s Spectral Indexand Farocki’s War at a Distanceexemplifythis legacy of artists reflecting on the role of new and developing imaging technologies in the contemporary world. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Cornford.
Artist Amy Cutler will discuss her current commission from the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity for which she is working on the the world’s first analogue 16mm film created in collaboration with Artifical Intelligence. The resulting film, Species Piracywill premiere at Iklectik, London on Thursday 14 December 2023.
February 16 – March 23, 2024
Pound Arts, Corsham
This solo exhibition takes the rate of limestone extraction in North East Somerset as its title. The work considers the relationship between technology and landscape, how landscapes become technologised as infrastructures for industry. By combining timelapse infrared video of disused quarries across the South West with satellite images of phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic Ocean, this new installation addresses the impact of human activity on the planetary carbon cycle.
https://poundarts.org.uk/whats-on/stephen-cornford-exhibition/
January 24 – February 10, 2024
Medialab Matadero, Madrid
A collaborative world-building project led by Alexandra Anikina, aimed at imagining micropolitical narratives, visual cultures, non-state infrastructures and new relationalities of what a potential xenosocialist AI (encountering the human-inhabited Earth) could be, drawing on science fiction methods and decolonial and feminist approaches. The project is developed in the framework of LAB#03 Collaborative Prototyping Lab, Synthetic Minds.
https://www.medialab-matadero.es/en/activities/collaborative-prototyping-lab-selected-projects-lab03
Imani Jacqueline Brown (b. 1988) is an artist, activist, and architectural researcher from New Orleans, based in London. Her work investigates the ‘continuum of extractivism’, which spans from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to fossil fuel production, gentrification, and police and corporate impunity. In exposing the layers of violence and resistance that form the foundations of US society, she opens up space to imagine paths to ecological reparations.
A presentation of CIIP at Center for the Study of the Networked Image (LSBU). The seminar will include presentations by the two co-directors of CIIP, Dr Alexandra Anikina and Dr Stephen Cornford, both of whom work between artistic research and theoretical writing. Sasha’s recent work is focusing on affective infrastructures and techno-animist assemblages. Stephen’s research considers the relationship between photographic and planetary space, between the technical image and its collateral landscapes.
