Irini Papadimitriou – Between art and AI

Tuesday, 10 December, 10 a.am.

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How does art provide us with thinking / critical material that could potentially enable us to make sense of the world, but also to make visible the hidden structures and architecture behind technological systems we rely on? What is art’s role engaging with ethical questions when it comes to AI applications? Through curatorial examples and case studies, she will be investigating myths portraying technology and in particular AI as an independent force, technologies shaped by human fallibilities but also social inequalities. She will be sharing examples of how artists often explore counternarratives in opposition to (western) technological colonialism, reductionism and biases. Narratives that reframe definitions of posthumanism and futurity, allowing us to imagine different perspectives and realities. 

Irini Papadimitriou is a curator and cultural manager, and currently Director of Exhibitions at Diriyah Art Futures. Between 2018 and 2024 she was the Creative Director at FutureEverything, and in 2023 the Artistic Director for the Sea Art Festival 2023 with Busan Biennale, South Korea. She was previously Digital Programmes Manager at the V&A, and Head of New Media Arts Development at Watermans. 
Recently curated exhibitions include: AI: Who’s Looking After Me? at Science Gallery London; Flickering Shores, Sea Imaginaries for Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale, South Korea; FutureFantastic, Bangalore, India; Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data and You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens for Onassis Stegi, Athens; Money, Ruins, and the Sea, NeMe, Cyprus; [Digital] Transmissions, National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan; Artificially Intelligent, V&A. 

Irini is a co-founder of Maker Assembly, a critical gathering about maker culture, and she has been a co-curator for the Arts & Culture experience at Mozilla Festival, including the 2019 exhibition Trustworthy AI: Imagining Better Machine Decision Making. She has served as jury member in awards such as Prix Ars Electronica, D&AD, Lumen Prize, EU STARTS and ACM Siggraph.