📣Join us for a #manifestdifferently public program
SPECULATIVE AND RADICAL SOLIDARITY IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI
Dr. David A.M. Goldberg, independent scholar, media critic, and product designer will present a multimedia critique of contemporary cultural expectations, catastrophes, and miracles refracted through the lens of machine learning and so-called artificial intelligence algorithms.
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco
Dr. David A. M. Goldberg:
“I am thinking very specifically about the diaspora of people who still believe in creating a better world; not just a better family, neighborhood, city, institution, or society… but an entire planet. Most people use electronic communications, databases, algorithms, software, and networks that they don’t own or control to accomplish the majority of the things they can, must, and want to do. Those who contemplate and theorize resistance in this situation have to extend Audre Lorde’s question of dismantling the master’s house with the master’s tools, because we don’t just build the master’s house with them, we build ourselves. The house is now a machine that recognizes, speaks, listens, and models logical thinking. We, often fueled by the delirium of our rage, our satire, our critique, our burning creativity, have been teaching the house, so now it knows our languages, interprets our texts, and can leap to seemingly-miraculous conclusions after tirelessly searching for needles in vast haystacks of our making. This talk is about a lot of things at once: Afrofuturism, Black feminism, generative artificial intelligence, the artistic imagination, and a question: faced with a daunting diversity of problems that are often bigger than any group can grasp, is solidarity at the planetary scale possible?”
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Led by CAMP, Manifest Differently is a new project developed, curated, and led by Megan Wilson and Kim Shuck with support from independent curator Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, education curator Amy Berk, assistant curator Katayoun Bahrami, and Public Relations/Communications Specialist Veronica Torres. In 2023/24, we are working with 38 diverse, multigenerational visual/media artists and poets to interrogate the history of Manifest Destiny and its legacies of inherited and perpetuated violence, trauma, and addiction. The outgrowth of resistance and resilience – giving fire to movements for social/ culture change. The project will be presented in 2023/24 at seven locations – Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP), Artists’ Television Access (ATA), Minnesota Street Project, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), Book Castle, the Beat Museum, and the San Francisco Public Library.
