Academic Tour | Hemangini Gupta, Caterina Moruzzi and Alex Taylor
Friday 25 September, 1pm
This academic talk will provide a perfect platform to learn about the ethical, social and political dimensions of AI.
This week we have three academic colleagues with us: Hemangini Gupta, Senior Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics; Caterina Moruzzi Chancellor's Fellow in Design Informatics; Alex Taylor Reader in Design Informatics. Together they will present key themes linked both to their research in to the ethics of artificial intelligence and our current exhibition by Anne Hardy. Namely, we will think together about 1) physicality and human labour 2) memory and 3) unruliness.
In her exhibition, Anne Hardy refers to “the evolving infiltration of artificial intelligence into our daily lives, and the future of our biological selves that have evolved over millennia to give us complex, embedded, intuitive knowledge and instincts.” Feeding from her process-based and found-object sculptures and environments, we will consider the way AI is impacting upon physical environments today. As the controversies around data centres grow, we will ask how are they changing physical places and the lives for those near and far. Taking Hardy’s imagining of a “future archaeology”, we will then think about the role that AI might have upon our collective memory and sense of togetherness. Lastly, from the sound of rainstorms and the influence of weather data from Marfa Texas, we will consider the unruliness of nature. That is, how aspects of the natural world escape capture in data and cannot be assimilated. In this way the tour will offer narratives that run in parallel with the beings, interlopers and hybrids that populate this immersive exhibition.
Important information for attendees
- This event is free, but registration is required. Places are limited, so please only register if you’re planning to attend. Thank you for helping us make sure everyone who’d like to join has the opportunity to do so.
- Talbot Rice Gallery does not currently have level access due to replacement of the lift. To arrange wheelchair access to the exhibition by appointment, please contact us in advance by calling 0131 650 2210 or emailing us: info.talbotrice@ed.ac.uk.
