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아티스트 레지던시

Politics and poetry: discussing homegrown social media, speculative design and the potato internet

CultureHub LA
1933 S Broadway
Suite 1128
Los Angeles, CA 90007

March 16, 2024
5–7pm PT
In-Person
Free / Donate

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Join artist Caroline Sinders and curator Nora N. Khan in discussion on Sinders' project, the Potato Internet. Khan and Sinders will discuss art as research based practices, the usefulness of art during moments of cultural upheaval, and art as inspiration for how we can reclaim and remake technology. 

This event is presented within the CultureHub Residency program.

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Nora N. Khan is a curator, editor, and writer of criticism on digital visual culture and theory of emerging technologies. She is the Co-Curator of the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement 2024, A Cosmic Movie Camera, with Andrea Bellini, hosted by Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. Her books are Seeing, Naming, Knowing (Brooklyn Rail) and with Steven Warwick, Fear Indexing the X-Files (Primary Information). Forthcoming are AI Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism (Lund Humphries) and Kingdom (Primary Information). She has served as editor at Rhizome, Topical Cream, and HOLO, and as professor in Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was nominated for the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her writing has been honored by a Critical Writing Grant given through the Visual Arts Foundation and the Crossed Purposes Foundation and a Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and supported by residencies at La Becque and Eyebeam. noranahidkhan.com.

Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of  technology’s impact in society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for public good, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others.

Photo courtesy of the artist