a pAIn in the…
An exhibition and 3 days of workshops exploring AI and critical narratives.
1-3 June 2023
SZN Gallery
92 Brick Lane
London E1 6RL
Over 3 days, A pAIn in the... [None of the Above]: brings together group research from international artists and researchers at the Royal College of Art in London showcases research, artworks, performances and participatory workshops.
As a collective this group has been driven by two parallel research concerns: the manifestation and interpretations of alternative Artificial and Distributed Intelligence Systems and the role of Storytelling within AI Real-World Narratives. This exhibition explores the rhythms and possibilities presented by methods that oscillate between narratives of the ‘not-knowing’ (continual artistic/human becoming) and ‘unthought’ (the cognitive assemblages beyond human consciousness).
The exhibition, and attached event, brings together their research, repositioning and challenging contemporary debate surrounding AI. Seeking new poetics, meanings, understanding and uses of artificial and distributed intelligences. Evidencing a multimodal and interdisciplinary approach the exhibition brings together objects, image and sound practices to explore and make demands of our enmeshment with technology. As a group we demand ‘None of the Above’ and call for a joyous reclamation of the future through the creation of a multiplicity of alternative imaginaries (AI).
Workshops:
Thursday 1 June
12:00 - 13:45 - Waxing lyrical - a hands-on workshop with goo and clay to figure out Ai (and the weird way stories can emerge).
14:00 - 15:30 - Think like the Octopus - Towards an Emergent Adaptive System with multiple brains, strange connections and wild colours
15:45 - 17:30 - Interference spores - Networks, Materiality and Rhythm
Friday 2 June
12:30 - 14:00 - Disassembling Machine Hallucinations
14:00 - 16:00 - Sonic collective intelligence workshop
16:00 - 18:00 - Fetch - Multi-Species Listening Performance
Saturday 3 June
15:00 - 17:00 - A pAin in the (...) open mic artists
17:00 - 18:00 - Closing Party
Artists: Sonia Bernac, Jonathan Boyd, Johnny Golding, Jeremy Keenan, Matt Lewis, Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel, Maggie Roberts, Martin Reinhart, Linn Phyllis Seeger, Tom Simmons, Dario Srbic, Shira Wachsmann, John Wild
