Art Papers Spring 2023 Issue Launch: Artificial Intelligence

Saturday, April 29, 5-7pm
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Please join us in celebrating the launch of ART PAPERS’ Spring 2023—Artificial Intelligence—issue on Saturday, April 29 at 5pm.

The event will feature an illustrated reading by Art Papers contributing editor, and AI issue co-editor, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian from her new book, The Institute for Other Intelligences, a special screening of INYAN/ZINTKALA/INYAN KAGAPI (STONES MAKE BIRDS MAKE STONES) by Kite, and a reading by issue-contributor K Allado-McDowell from their current book, Air Age Blueprint. The program will conclude with a conversation between co-editors Hakopian and Art Papers editor and artistic director Sarah Higgins, and an audience Q&A. Copies of the issue will be available for purchase.

About 46.03 – Artificial Intelligence
The practices featured in this issue demonstrate how AI systems can act as a proxy for the broader structures of coloniality, exploitation, oppression, and bias that too often undergird software’s logics, but AI can also be mobilized toward thinking differently; toward reordering our understanding of human boundaries, histories, and relations with others. This issue’s contributors emphasize themes of queer liberation, insisting on embodied knowledge over collected data, and of modes of resistance that emerge alongside emergent technologies.

About the Participants

Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is an Armenian writer, artist, and researcher born in Yerevan and residing in Glendale, CA. She is an associate professor in technology and social justice at ArtCenter College of Design. In 2021, she was a visiting Mellon Professor of the Practice at Occidental College, where she co-curated the exhibition Encoding Futures: Critical Imaginaries of AI with Meldia Yesayan at OXY ARTS. With Avi Alpert and Danny Snelson, she makes up one-third of the collective Research Service. She is a contributing editor for ART PAPERS, and her writing and commentary have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Performance Research journal, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and Meghan Markle’s Archetypes. She is the author of The Institute for Other Intelligences (X Artists’ Books, 2022).

K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the books Pharmako-AI (Ignota), Amor Cringe, and Air Age Blueprint, and they are co-editor of Atlas of Anomalous AI. They created the neuro-opera Song of the Ambassadors, and they record and release music under the name Qenric. K established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI. They are a conference speaker, educator, and consultant for think tanks and institutions seeking to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding. K’s work has been covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Bookforum, Artforum, Lithub, The Warburg Institute, and the Institute of Network Cultures.

Kite a.k.a. Suzanne Kite is an award-winning Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, composer, and academic raised in Southern California known for her sound and video performance with her Machine Learning hair-braid interface. Kite holds a BFA from CalArts in music composition, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice explore contemporary Lakota ontology through research creation and performance. She often works in collaboration, especially with family and community members. Her art practice includes developing Machine Learning and compositional systems for body interface movement performances, interactive and static sculpture, immersive video and sound installations, poetry and experimental lectures, experimental video, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint, Unheard Records. Working with machine learning techniques since 2017 and developing body interfaces for performance since 2013, Kite is one of the first American Indian artists to utilize Machine Learning in art practice. Kite has been included in publications such as Atlas of Anomalous AI, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, the Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), with the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines.” Kite was a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, a 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow, a 2020 Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab Fellow, a 2020 “100 Women in AI Ethics,” a 2021 Common Fields Fellow, and the 2022 Creative Time Open Call artist for the Black and Indigenous Dreaming Workshops with Alisha B. Wormsley.

Sarah Higgins is Editor and Artistic Director of Art Papers.

About Art Papers
For 46 years Art Papers has provided multiple platforms for publishing and presenting varied voices, critical perspectives, and urgent conversations happening about and around contemporary art. Art Papers is committed to creating space for diverse voices and amplifying them, especially ones that have historically been marginalized in the art world. Based in Atlanta, Art Papers represents the American South globally and offers an underrepresented perspective on the global art world, in a way that champions important work being produced outside of cultural capitals and mainstream markets.