Language: English (mozilla)
Given the ways AI is reshaping our understanding of the world, eachOther, ourselves, ie notions of truth or reality more fundamentally, thinking these technologies with and through art, aesthetic, and creative practice becomes essential. As art, anchored in the experiential, the sensuous, the tactile and visceral, introduces different notions of truth and sensemaking.
Art begets us to not only envision the world differently but also allows for nuanced and novel modes of engagement, questioning, and experiencing.
How does thinking AI and art together re/orient us towards communal, embodied, or concerted presence, performance, or relationships with technologies?
How does Art, aesthetics, and other creative forms of sensemaking evoke different possibilities for engaging and inhabiting our socio-technical or AI entanglements?
Invited artist, Ari Melenciano, will present her art and research practice that explores computational anthropology, societal subconscious intellect, the ethnographical morphing of artistic expression across diasporas, speculative design, the formation and embodiment of mythology and rituals, and the materialization of omni-scoped research in the form of quasi-pseudosciences.
This session is a Speculative Salon-styled discussion format where Ari Melenciano will share their work and perspectives while responding to participants' comments and curiosities and will close with a moment of reflection and collective contemplation around what might AI might mean for art and creativity.
Cosmos Experience Wrangler |
Futures Thinking & Foresight | Facilitator
Curator | Convener | Sometimes Speaker | Perpetual Seeker
Learner, Companion, Guide — on journeys of individual & collective inquiry.
Perpetually curious, I have curated, convened, shared and helped broaden perspectives in a range of contexts, around many different topics - and now AI Cosmologies is the latest adventure!
What began as a nascent idea, has evolved into this MozFest moment's synthesis of what is an ongoing, ever-evolving, life-long and life-wide (un)learning project(s)/inquiry grounded in decoloniality, feminist, and Black/African diaspora pasts/presents/futures-focus
At the end of a world as we've known it, this liminal and emergent space in which we find ourselves is potent: together we can collectively dream and liberate not-yet-known possibilities of safety, justice, equity, and wellbeing for all.
Ari's art and research practice explores computational anthropology, societal subconscious intellect, the ethnographical morphing of artistic expression across diasporas, speculative design, the formation and embodiment of mythology and rituals, and the materialization of omni-scoped research in the form of quasi-pseudosciences.
She currently teaches courses on emerging technologies like A.I., art, and design at New York University and Parsons/ The New School. She is also the founder of Afrotectopia, a cultural institution that is imagining, researching, and building at the nexus of new media art, design, science, and technology through a Black and Afrocentric lens.
You can learn more about Ari and her work at: https://ariciano.earth/