CODE 2024
Deep Nudes and Digital Oblivion
— 13 October 2024
Wednesday until Sunday from 12:00 – 18:00
On Friday 30 August the exhibition will open at 17:00
Ticket price:
€5,- (Regular) or €4,- (Discount CJP, Upas, Student, <18)
The exhibition CODE 2024: Deep Nudes and Digital Oblivion takes a deep dive into today’s most urgent digital challenges: from the use of artificial intelligence in image creation and the right to be forgotten to the opacity of machine learning and the tension between personal identity and public perception. From 30 August to 13 October, the exhibition presents the results of CODE 2024, a co-creation project involving artists, designers, researchers, activists and tech industry workers who collaborated in groups to produce art projects.
Developments in artificial intelligence technologies and their impact on our digital rights have been among the core issues for CODE 2024 and the participants. We see these concerns reflected in the art projects produced by the groups.
What life choices can we imagine leaving to artificial intelligence in the future? Can we trust the tech industry to apply values that are important to us when building artificial intelligence technologies? Should AI respond to all the needs and desires of all its users – even when other people believe these needs and desires are questionable or offensive? Who gets to decide what is acceptable? And what role do we want our governments to play in this process? How do we find a balance that avoids moral policing but prevents harmful biases going on the rampage?
Once information has been released on the internet and made public, it is difficult – impossible even – to retract or correct it. This problem will become even more complex with artificial intelligence producing more and more information. We have a right to be forgotten, so we can ask specific companies or authorities to delete our personal information, but does that mean our data has disappeared entirely?
The complex questions that CODE has been raising since it started in 2021 are only becoming more complex now that AI is an omnipresent part of our daily reality. Do we control our own digital existence? How can we reclaim our digital agency?
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
EVENT: AI Hacks and Masculinity Exposed
Exhibition Tour & Artist Talks
Thursday 3 October
15:00 – 17:00
In this event, located in the exhibition CODE 2024: Deep Nudes and Digital Oblivion, several artists will discuss the installations, interventions and hacks they made for this exhibition. The event starts with a tour of the exhibition and an introduction by Arjon Dunnewind, director of IMPAKT and curator of the exhibition. This will be followed by a conversation with the artists.
About CODE
CODE 2024 was organised together with Werktank (Leuven, Belgium), PrivacySalon CPDP (Brussels, Belgium) and NoSchool (Nevers, France). It brought together 15 participants with 11 nationalities, based in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
CODE is a co-creation, awareness and change project that was initiated by IMPAKT in 2021. In those four years it has brought together over 70 artists and non-artists to produce projects that address digital rights. Every year CODE initiates a six-months co-creation process through which participants meet and have discussions together. They form collaborative groups to make installations, interventions, workshops and other art projects. Our aim with these projects is to support general awareness and dialogue with politicians and policymakers on important issues related to digital rights, the agency we have over our data, the way governments use digital technologies, the policies of Big Tech companies and how to force these companies to adhere to stricter, democratic legislation.
This exhibition includes the results of CODE 2024 and a few works produced in earlier iterations of CODE.
CODE 2024
Dual Narratives (Colas Fiszman, Bjørn Erik Haugen, Marcel Top)
Espresso Exposé (Mona Hedayati, Sander Veenhof, Wouter Maas)
meta:morphosis (Aleksandra Naydenova, Amber Macintyre, Cyan D’Anjou, Dorijn Boogaard & Kurina Sohn)
Toyboi (Claudia Oliveira, Gema FB Martín, Hsiang-Yun Huang, Lotte Louise de Jong)
CODE 2023
Clickedy.click (Hennie Bulstra, Leon van Oldenborgh, Lukas Völp & Robin van de Griend )
VOICES (Ahnjili ZhuParris, Mohsen Hazrati, Phivos-Angelos Kollias, Yu Zhang)
CODE 2022
DSMA Unlimited (Elena Falomo, Funda Zeynep Aygüler, Guillaume Slizewicz, Katia Sophia Ditzler & Vo Ezn)
CODE 2021
Googless (Fred Wordie, Kwan Suppaiboonsuk, Ola Bonati& Timo Meilof)
