workshop

01/10/2024

Freie Universität Berlin

In collaboration with Organized by Annette Jael Lehmann, Ariadna Blanch López, Charlotte Hannah Peters, Giacomo Nanni, Suzan Hanow and Till Rückwart

Jetsam – Acts of Queering AI

This collaborative One Day Laboratory Jetsam offers an art and practice-based exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it reflects and reproduces certain normative practices of gender and sexuality, to ultimately foster more diverse and radical entanglements with digital technologies.

From the backdrop of case studies in art, artistic research, technoscience studies and queer activism, Acts of Queering AI proposes blurring of boundaries between nature and culture, technology and biology, and the human and the non-human as fundamental intersectional power systems of difference. We collaboratively explore the relationship between queerness and AI from a perspective that posits data-visualization and queer knowledge design as central to understanding AI differently. In which ways can visualizations such as in avatars reframe the relationship between datafication and the queer body? Stressing the socially constructed nature of AI, the artist and researchers pose questions about the politics and ethics of machine embodiments and data imaginaries on the one hand, and about technical possibilities for a more-than-human production of social identities characterized by shifting diversity and multiplicity on the other, as they are mediated by and through digital interventions.

The Lab is a special stage for new, unexpected, and groundbreaking relationalities between human and non-human bodies (“biohacking”, “queering ‘trans-nature’”, “self-design sexes” etc.), and its ongoing transformation into a posthuman world from the perspectives of art, data-mappings and knowledge design.'