Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more (Flickr gallery)
Slovenian interdisciplinary artist Sanela Jahić will present a solo exhibition titled Under the Calculative Gaze at the Filodrammatica Gallery (Korzo 28/1, Rijeka). The exhibition explores the issues and potential responses to the use of artificial intelligence in the everyday lives of numerous groups that occupy lower positions on the social power scale.
The exhibition will open on Thursday, April 4th, at 7 p.m., and will be available for viewing until April 25th.
Gallery opening hours:
Monday – Friday 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. | 5 – 8 p.m.
Saturday 5 – 8 p.m.
– closed on Sundays and public holidays
The project Under the Calculative Gaze investigates how socially applied AI is not only directly intertwined with unresolved injustices of the prevailing socio-economic system, but actually enables a transition towards authoritarianism that is present in the technology industry itself, in the politics of various countries and institutions, and in the rise of far-right political movements. AI reinforces existing power dynamics and, by hierarchically categorising individuals, furthers societal divisions based on exclusionary and ideologically underpinned criteria of value and allocation.
Targets of the extensive digital control and algorithmic optimisation are typically “low-rights environments”, where expectations of political responsibility and transparency are easier to disregard. Counteracting this are collective practices of self-organisation, where positions of social and political disadvantage give rise to solidarity across differences and beyond models of algorithmic governance.
PRESENTED WORKS:
SANELA JAHIĆ
UNDER THE CALCULATIVE GAZE
☛ Galerija Filodrammatica, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
4 – 25 April, 2024
EXHIBITION OPENING:
Thursday, 4 April, at 7 p.m.
GALLERY OPENING HOURS:
Monday – Friday 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. | 5 – 8 p.m.
Saturday 5 – 8 p.m.
(closed on Sundays and public holidays; contact us to arrange another time of your visit)
Technical director: Andrej Primožič
Author of the essay ‘No to AI, Yes to a Non-fascist Apparatus’: Dan McQuillan
Visual image and graphic design: Jaka Neon
3D animation: Toni Mlakar
Audio post-production: Julij Zornik
Image post-production: Art Rebel 9
Thanks: Magda Malinowska, Agnieszka Mróz, Inicjatywa Pracownicza, Matti, Lenart J. Kučić, Extinction Rebellion, Jacqueline Serrato / South Side Weekly, Hedi Tounsi
Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2023
Produced in the framework of konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
SANELA JAHIĆ