Can everything – including vision, flexibility, imagination and other skills often associated with creative practices – be turned into data? Should artists feel threatened by AIs that compose music, make animation movies or write novels? Or is there something intrinsically uncomputable in the artistic mind? Are predictive algorithms creators’ friends or foes? Can you automate artistic processes and gestures?

Artist Sanela Jahić collaborates with engineers, lecturers in creative and social computing as well as experts in health informatics to investigate workers’ subordination to machinery, the possible automation of artistic practices and the role of algorithms in the transition towards authoritarianism.

RELATED LINKS

Sanela Jahic
https://sanelajahic.com

NO TO AI, YES TO A NON-FASCIST APPARATUS
https://sanelajahic.com/works/no-to-ai-yes-to-a-non-fascist-apparatus

Books and authors mentioned in the conversation:

Matko Meštrović
https://monoskop.org/Matko_Me%C5%A1trovi%C4%87

Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, 2007 (Basic Books)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop

Dan McQuillan, Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, 2022 (Bristol University Press)
https://danmcquillan.org/pages/book.html

COLOPHON

Host: Régine Debatty
Guest: Sanela Jahić

Recording: Régine Debatty
Music, editing and audio mix: Gašper Torkar

The Future Behind Us podcast series

Curated by: Régine Debatty
Coordinated by: Janez Fakin Janša

Produced by: Marcela Okretič

Production:
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2024

Part of:
PXXP•XXV: Speculation and Decay

Conceived and co-organised by:
Aksioma

For:
Pixxelpoint – 25^th International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices

Produced and co-organised by:
Nova Gorica Arts Centre

In the framework of:
GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica 2025

Supported by:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica

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