Antonio Somaini hat im Zusammenhang mit dem von ihm und mir geleiteten Forschungsprojekt »The Latent Spaces of Culture« eine Ausstellung mit Kunst mit und über KI an der Worth Ryder Gallery der UC Berkeley kuratiert; ich zeichne als Co-Kurator.
Aus der Beschreibung:
In neural networks, the “hidden layers” are the intermediate strata of transformation between input and output — the computational structures where data are transformed, weighted, and recombined into increasingly abstract, distributed representations that no human eye can read. The exhibition HIDDEN LAYERS: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations takes this term as its conceptual frame, bringing together seventeen international artists and researchers working at the intersection of contemporary art and machine learning to make visible what artificial intelligence keeps out of sight: its planetary infrastructures and computational latent spaces, its colonial and ideological underpinnings, its misrecognitions and hallucinations, and its transformation of our relation to the past through the silent reprocessing of pre-existing cultural forms. The exhibition is organized in four sections: “In the Latent Spaces of Culture,” “Material Infrastructures,” “Colonial Imaginaries: From Misrecognition to Generative Slopaganda,” and “Hallucinations and Psychedelia.”
Featuring works by Nouf Aljowaysir; Gašper and Nina Beguš & Metahaven; Grégory Chatonsky; Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler; Asma Kazmi & Jill Miller; Andrea Khôra; Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage; Greg Niemeyer; and Mario Santamaria & Alex Saum-Pascual
Exhibition Dates: September 3 – October 3, 2026#
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 3, 4-6:30pm, Worth Ryder Art Gallery Open to the public, RSVP requested
Artist Talk, Gregory Chatonsky “INFRALLUCINATION”: Thursday, September 3, 6:30-8:00pm, AAPB 285 Open to the public, RSVP required
Film Program, Push Buttons and AI: September 9, 7 pm, BAMPFA RSVP
Curatorial Tour, led by Antonio Somaini: Friday, September 11, 4:30pm, Worth Ryder Art Gallery Open to the public, no RSVP required
Workshop on Latent Space of Culture: September 10, 2pm-4pm; September 11/12, 9:30 am-4pm on both days, 470 Stephens
Berkeley AI Futures Salon: On the Subject of Art in Artificial Intelligence: September 16, 6:30pm– 9pm Apply to attend
Water and AI. What AI can learn from Water. Panel discussion: October 1, 6:30pm-8pm. Worth Ryder Art Gallery.
A Tour of AI: October 3 Reservations required. Information forthcoming
Closing day: October 3, 12-3pm, Worth Ryder Art Gallery Open to the public, no RSVP required