As AIs grow in our collective imagination and we become increasingly reliant on these systems in our personal spheres, a negotiation of agency is emerging that is shifting how we relate to ourselves, each other, and our environments. This exhibition seeks to create a space for both individual artistic investigation and communal knowledge-building centered around experimentation and play.

Rather than claiming a clear position on our relationships with these technologies – as public discourse often demands – our explorations will be framed with critical curiosity as methodology, maintaining rigorous analysis while welcoming unexpected discoveries about how AIs might be changing our experiences and how we relate to ourselves (our senses, our bodies, our psychologies, our practices…), our communities (our language, our archives, our histories…), and our environments (our social, political, and economic structures, physical and virtual spaces, natural and simulated climates).

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Hannah Zhang (she/her) is a writer and curator who believes in creating interstices where critical artistic dialogue can extend beyond established spaces, systems, and infrastructures. Inspired by communal knowledge-building centered around experimentation and play, her current research focuses on alternative approaches to narrative-construction — including off-site curatorial interventions and counter-archival methodologies in time-based media and performance. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Design Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

http://hannahzstudio.com/