Alternative Images of AI

Photographed in Abu Dhabi, Farah's series imagines “the ways in which our understanding of the natural world—and of each other—might surpass language or description, and instead take the form of a feeling, or a knowing.”

Her photographs prompt questions around how AI shifts our notions of personal identity and beauty by using collage as a means to try on different versions of ourselves.

In the Body Shop diptych, a mismatched mannequin hand and face boards for make-up practice react against the stereotypical images of AI physically represented as amorphous, silver, sexless robots.

In Two Sisters, Farah manipulates an image of two women reclining to re-imagine how AI devices might perceive their users during everyday moments.

In Extended Producer Responsibility, Charlie imagines "a garment that can describe where all its constituent parts are from, what labor went into constructing it, what its carbon footprint is, when and how it needs to be maintained or repaired, and how to manage its disposal."

In Kantamanto Registry, viewers are invited to consider how a physicalized AI system might organize and match goods with customers for more equitable and fair distribution.

Photographed in Belgium, his images are “an attempt to visualize the many different possible realities depending on which perspective you look at them from,” explains Pinckers.

In Virtual Assistant, an artificial personal assistant is revealed only in a reflection, representing how AI may help humans with their needs and desires from different points of view.

Drawing parallels between how AI models can collect intricate data about people and the process of mask moulding, Hollow-mask imagines the doubling of personal identity "to be removed, swapped, adapted or appropriated".

In Accidental Convergence, a staged scene with real couriers comments on the relationship between human labor and AI, where a glitch in an AI system results in a meeting of delivery workers upon a single location.