Making Series
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
BIMI and the Jarman Lab present a series of screenings and events on MAKING.
The first event in the series takes place on 13 February and is titled De-Generated. It explores the question of human agency against the backdrop of the rapidly expanding creative use of AI-generated imagery.
The event will feature the first public screening of a new essay film by Bartek Dziadosz, Close Cuts, followed by a programme of short films created using AI models and a panel discussion.
Programme
Close Cuts by Bartek Dziadosz
Close Cuts is a scrapbook visual essay that revisits the films of Agnès Varda and Lého Galibert-Laîné, tracing their fragmentary aesthetic and exploring their paradoxical affinity with the architecture of neural networks. It introduces the term essayistic découpage as a way of describing a particular method of critical practice.
Duration: 35 mins
Call Me When You Get There, Act I: Data Haunted by Magritte’s Ghost and Act II: An Uncanny Dialogue by Donatella Della Ratta and Alessandro Turchioe.
Call Me When You Get There is a theory-driven video essay series in three acts that interrogates artificial intelligence from the extractive infrastructures of data and human labor that sustain it, to the ways it operates as an epistemic engine, producing new regimes of reality and truth. Act I reflects on the shifting ontology of the image under AI. What does representation become when language turns into code and images detach from lived experience, from matter, from world? Act II extends this inquiry through a fictional conversation staged between two unlikely interlocutors: Roland Barthes, via Camera Lucida, and a contemporary artist-entrepreneur whose essays celebrate AI’s world-making potential.
Duration: 20 mins
The Rock Speaks by Amy Louise Wilson and Francois Knoetze
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a rare earth mineral that is essential in the production of technologies. In this hybrid AI documentary, South African artists Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson, together with Congolese historian Joe-Yves Salankang Sa-Ngol, trace the trans-continental journey of this precious metal: from its violent extraction in the mines of DRC to its sale on global stock markets. The Rock Speaks weaves a complex contemplation on an urgent ecological crisis that is fuelled by obscene labour practices that our technological systems demand.
Duration: 7 mins
Contact name: Matthew Barrington
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