AI, Culture, and Society
The creative cultures of AI, by Dr Kim Baraka and Dr Rosa Wevers.
How the performing arts can help us develop more capable interactive robots
Dr Kim Baraka (VU)
In this talk, I will discuss the interplay between my background as an interactive robotics researcher and my background as a dance artist.
I will discuss concrete ways in which the performing arts, and particularly expertise and knowledge from dance, can inspire, inform, and help test technical advances in interactive robotics, from social robots to physically assistive robots. This will use the following op-ed piece as a starting point https://shorturl.at/yCPHr.
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Algorithmic Surveillance: A curatorial Inquiry
Dr Rosa Wevers (Minerva Academy, Groningen)
This presentation explores the critical potential of curatorial inquiry in the realm of algorithmic surveillance. I reflect on the exhibition 'Face Value' (2021), a research-exhibition (Sheikh 2015) I curated in collaboration with IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture]. Through a series of artistic interventions, 'Face Value' sought to defamiliarize the normalized technologies of algorithmic surveillance, revealing their hidden politics.
By creating these defamiliarizations, the exhibition aimed to engage visitors not just in sense-making but also in sensing surveillance, ultimately offering tools for them to become more responsive to it. In doing so, the research-exhibition aimed to foster a critical surveillance spectatorship.
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