Inspiration
As an artist, I am inspired by the co-creation of image-based communication on the Internet and the desire to participate in the planning of a feministly conceived digital and real future, in which it will possibly come to cooperate with artificial intelligence. In extreme cases, technical progress would irreversibly accelerate artificial intelligence to such an extent that the future would no longer be tied to a biological existence after this event. What are the consequences? Would humans relate to machines as animals would relate to humans? Would human-made AI be able to stop the destruction of nature in our place or do we succumb to immersive daydreams? In the increasingly virtual reality, stereotypical patterns and codes are repeated and reinforced. The digital space of possibility harbors the dangers of abuse. (Loss of control, shit storms, surveillance, misogynous visual language and violence, etc.) Desires for a higher destiny emerge in many places and are breeding grounds for strange, popular speculations. Technical progress is therefore also associated with a severe backlash. We would like to conduct visionary research in order to maintain and generate conditions that make it possible to think and create in a future feminist story beyond old and new stereotypes.
What it does
The project combines ongoing research, exchange and visionary drafts of future possibilities. In dealing with the ideas and research of Donna Haraway, Limor Shifman, Janelle Shane and Caroline Criado Perez, we are continuously developing new impulses for a writing conversation in the form of a participatory virtual screen during the project period. The planned meme should arise and grow with drawings and comments digitally sketched with the mouse. What potential do images have to inform and constitute opinions? Limur Shifman researched the phenomenon of Internet memes "memes in digital culture" and explained that "memes" may initially appear as trivial and banal artifacts, but in reality they reflect deep social and cultural structures. The focus is on the question "What is Artificial Intelligence and how do we want to cooperate with it?" In the project, the focus, in addition to the graphical commentary, is to reflect on the extent to which existing social stereotypes repeat or break up in the utopias and dystopias of a transcendent biology. How do feminists see these visions? Donna Haraway turns away from a technophobic feminist stance and, with her model of the string figures, designs a future-oriented, multi-symbiotic conception of overcoming the Antropocene. According to the principle of an Interchange & Commentary, we develop linguistic and graphic impulses that reflect what we understand by artificial intelligence and what ideas / visions we have about it. These can be further developed in a participatory manner.
How we built it
Drawings and Commentaries by Java Script Programming
Challenges we ran into
Although it takes millions of hours …not to give up
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Starting to bridge handmade and thinking and upcoming AI visons
What we learned
We learned that it is important to build bridges between aesthetics gaps, topologies and thinking
What's next for Transcend Biology? Herstorical claims of a smarter future
Looking for ongoing Cooperation
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