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LASER Talks Cambridge (UK) co-hosted with LASER Los Angeles (UCLA):
AnotherAI.art: Decolonizing Art Ecosystem
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You are invited to a special LASER co-hosted by Satinder Gill, the managing editor of AI & Society and Victoria Vesna, North American editor of AI & Society.
Amir Baradaran will present the overall background of the special issue and will be joined by one of the contributors, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian to start a series of intriguing dialogues related to the special issue.
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Thursday, June 1st, 2023
10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST
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Artists are well-placed to ask critical questions that are aware of but not constrained by the nature of AI, grappling with questions of access, agency, and equity in relation to AI and its impact on the art ecosystem, including the encoding of bias and the (digital) marginalization of various social groups, including but not limited to people of color, immigrants, and women. Such critique of AI allows for the emergence of those bodies (of knowledge) that stem from, or live through, the types of cosmologies that have been marginalized or erased through colonization but can be recentered through processes of decolonization, i.e. through a questioning of the patterns of power that shape our intellectual, political, economic and social worlds.
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Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, The Institute for Other Intelligences (Lecture Performance), 2023.
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Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is an Armenian writer, artist, and researcher born in Yerevan and residing in Glendale, CA. She is an Associate Professor in Technology and Social Justice at ArtCenter College of Design, and holds a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, The Institute for Other Intelligences (Lecture Performance), 2023.
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In 2019, Amir Baradaran was at the forefront of the AnotherAI.art: Decolonizing Art Ecosystem Summit, which united over 80 distinguished thinkers and professionals to delve into the intersections of critical discourse, art creation, and artificial intelligence. This initiative, endorsed by the New Museum, the Knight Foundation, and Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, sparked the concept of a unique issue recommended by Victoria Vesna, North American editor of AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication. The groundwork established during the summit has grown in importance given the advent of Chat GPT, presenting substantial and pressing questions that our society faces today.
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AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, (Springer Verlag, UK) is an International Journal publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short communications, and reviews of books and other publications. Established in 1987, the Journal focuses on societal issues including the design, use, management, and policy of information, communications and new media technologies, with a particular emphasis on cultural, social, cognitive, economic, ethical, and philosophical implications.
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LEONARDO ART SCIENCE EVENING RENDEZVOUS
The Leonardo/ISAST LASERs are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of the LASERs is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities around the world.
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