TECHNOLOGY’S PROMISE TO AUTHENTICATE
Hard-Core, Luke Dormehl, Masha Mcconaghy, Sebastian Sschmieg & Jonas Lund
Creativity can be outsourced and automated. One person’s data is another person’s intellectual property. How do networked distribution, generated content and open sourcing affect artistic processes? As an attempt to define authenticity on this basis, we will draw connections from authenticity to solution-based technologies and where these intersect with art/cultural practices.
Luke Dormhel
― SpeakerLuke Dormehl is a technology journalist, author and former documentary filmmaker. He has written about technology and, specifically, artificial intelligence for a variety of publications including Fast Company, Wired, The Guardian, Politico, Consumer Reports, SFX and others. His other books include Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future; The Apple Revolution: Steve Jobs, the Counterculture and How the Crazy Ones Took Over the World and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems… and Create More. His documentaries have been screened on U.K. television for Channel 4.
Jonas Lund
― SpeakerJonas Lund (1984, Sweden) creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites and performances that critically reflect on contemporary networked systems and power structures. His artistic practice involves creating systems and setting up parameters that oftentimes require engagement from the viewer. Through his works, Lund investigates the latest issues generated by the increasing digitalisation of contemporary society like authorship, participation and distribution of agency. At the same time, he questions the mechanisms of the art world; he challenges the production process, authoritative power and art market practices.
Masha McConaghy
― SpeakerDr. Masha McConaghy, curator and researcher, is a co-founder of BigchainDB, a scalable blockchain database and ascribe.io, a service enabling immutable attribution for artists and clear provenance for digital and physical art. She has a PhD in Arts from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris and a Museology Degree from Louvre School, Paris. Her PhD explored the distinct relationship between art and commerce over the centuries. She has organized exhibitions throughout the world and has worked with curators at the Louvre Museum, Paris and directed a commercial gallery in Vancouver. Her current pursuits are at the intersection of art, IP and applications of new technology.
HARDCORE
― ArtistHARDCORE is an Amsterdam and London based artistrun organization operating nonhierarchically and nonauthoritatively by delegating tasks algorithmically between collaborative parties. Since its foundation in spring 2011, HARDCORE has been developing curatorial methods which problematize aspects of exhibitionmaking, such as subjective choices based on notions of harmony and taste. It recently started an artist database supported by its robotic curator Asahi to organize exhibitions. HARDCORE is kindly supported by the European Pavilion. Recent exhibitions and presentations include; TEXT2SPEECH: Proxy Politics As Withdrawal, ICA, London (UK, 2016); Bots, Bodies and Beasts, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie(NL, 2016); Asahi 4.0 Launch, Art Guard / OPENYOURKIMONO, London (UK, 2015); Strictly Digital, Alternativa, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk (PL, 2015); Close your Eyes, LET GOOOOO, Ruimte Ceasuur (NL, 2014); IS IT ART OR IS IT JUST, NEW: ART CENTER, BWA Zielona Góra (PL, 2014); Logic if you want human if you like, Alpineum (CH, 2013).
Sebastian Schmieg
― ArtistSebastian Schmieg investigates the algorithmic circulation of images, texts, and bodies. He creates playful interventions that penetrate the shiny surfaces of our networked society and explore the realities that lie behind them. In particular Schmieg focuses on labor, algorithmic management, and artificial intelligence. He works in a wide range of media including video, website, installation, artist book, custom software, lecture performance, and delivery service. Schmieg studied at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. His work has been exhibited internationally at Kunsthalle Zürich, The Photographers’ Gallery London, MdbK Leipzig, HeK Basel, and Chronus Art Center Shanghai. Schmieg is a professor for interface design at HTW Dresden. He is based in Berlin.