ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LANDSCAPES / NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS AND ENVIRONMENTS IN THE AGE OF ALGORITHMS

The third session of the cycle is devoted to the aesthetic and political stakes of the new forms of vision and listening. They are based on what is today called artificial intelligence and machine learning. We will take as a starting point the impact of these new technologies on the different forms of representation of nature: in particular, satellite images of the surface of our planet.

There will be a presentation of the projects developed by the artist Abelardo Gil-Fournier in collaboration with Jussi Parikka and the Archaeologies of Media and Technology research group - for example, Landscape Prediction: An Earthology of Moving Landforms. The aim will be to analyse the interrelationships between "artificial" and "natural" intelligence, and the way in which machine learning and digital geolocation technologies are used to make predictions about the future evolution of our planet and its "active" forms: rivers, glaciers, forests.

Jussi Parikka is Professor of Technological Culture & Aesthetics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and co-director of the Archaeologies of Media and Technology research group. His publications include Insect Media. An Archaeology of Animals and Technology (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), Qu’est-ce que l’archéologie des medias ? [What is Media Archaeology?] (Polity, 2012), The Anthrobscene (Polity, 2014), A Geology of Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2015).

Artist and researcher, Abelardo Gil-Fournier analyses the intertwining of contemporary forms of visualization and the living surface of our planet. His practice aims to develop platforms - installations, devices, laboratories - conceived as open mechanisms where art, research and politics intersect. He is currently a post-doc researcher at the FAMU in Prague, and he participates in the research of the Archaeologies of Media and Technology (AMT) group.