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Royal College of Art

Ana-Cartography (...None of the Above)

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Sept. 6, 2023 - Sept. 10, 2023

Gallery 3

Royal College of Art

Artists and researchers at the Royal College of Art in London present, as a collective, a show driven by two parallel research concerns: the manifestation and interpretations of alternative Artificial and Distribute Intelligence Systems and the role of Storytelling within AI Real-World Narratives.

Through various approaches Ana-Cartography (...None of the Above) maps the real, not-real and emergent possibilities that art can reveal in leading contemporary discussion around AI.

This exhibition explores the rhythms and possibilities presented by methods that oscillate between narratives of the ‘not-knowing’ (continual artistic/human becoming) and ‘unthought’ (the cognitive assemblages beyond human consciousness).

Threaded through the run of this exhibition will be co-art/design sprints, provocations and practicals (workshops), please see details below.

Artists, contributors and researchers include established internationally recognised artists and researchers including: Johnny Golding, Tom Simmons, John Wild, Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel, Matt Lewis, Jonathan Boyd, Jeremy Keenan, Maggie Roberts, Linn Phyllis Seeger, Sonia Bernac, Dario Srbic and Shira Wachsmann.

Events and Workshops

A programme of co-art / design sprints and discursive workshops offering provocations and opportunities for interplay with both the artists’ practices, and the weave of the broader algorithmised environment. The events and workshops are free, but please book your space via the link below each event. 

Wednesday 6 September

6.00pm – 9.00pm
Ana-Cartography (...none of the above) Opening Event with Artists’ Talks.
 

Thursday 7 September

Ana-Cartography Co-art / design sprints

2.00pm – 4.00pm
Sonic Knowing
Listening Workshop with Matt Lewis
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6.00pm – 8.00pm
Interference Spores || Becoming Octopus: - Rethinking AI though mycelium networks and meditations on becoming Octopus
Workshop with Shira Wachsmann, John Wild, and Maggie Roberts 0rphan Drift
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Friday 8 September

1.00pm – 4.00pm
Ana-Cartography and it's Provocations Day 1
Provocation 1 Ana-cartographing the unknown, chaired by Johnny Golding (philosopher/poeisis)
Provocateurs: Jane and Louise Wilson (Faking the Fakes- getting beyond identity, artists/filmmakers/profs at Newcastle); Ling Tan and Usman Haque, (Umbrellium; architects/designers re-wilding the public through Ai); Martin Reinhart (engineer/ artist and inventor TX transform, Angewandte and and Tanja Traxler (experimental physicist, topologies of matter and Ai)
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Saturday 9 September

1.00pm – 4.00pm
Ana-Cartograpy and its Provocations Day 2
Provocation 2: Ana-cartographing the unstable, chaired by John Wild (artist / sonic intelligence / mycellium futures)
Provocateurs: Mozilla.ai, Sam Griffin (Future Casts [Web3/net blockchain]), Elliott Higgs (Memetics and Hyperstitions. Curator, Tate Modern) and George Simms (Collaborating with AI, networked intelligence. Plymouth Uni)
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6.00pm – 7.00pm
Listening Structures x Just One Word After Another
Collaborative workshop by Yasmine Boudiaf & Mukul Patel
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7.00pm – 9.00pm
Music and Screenings

 

Image credit: (detail) Maggie Roberts, Becoming Octopus Meditation 8, 2020. Still from single channel HD video. Courtesy of the Royal College of Art.

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