April 18 – June 15, 2025 Opening reception April 18, 6–9pm Gallery hours Fridays, 4pm–9pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 12pm–6pm

Boston Cyberarts 141 Green Street Boston, MA, USA

Featuring artists Lai Yi Ohlsen, Lani Asunción, Jazsalyn, Kristoffer Ørum, Caroline Sinders, and Roopa Vasudevan, alongside work from the Data Fluencies Theatre Project (Emerson College, Boston) and DATA/FFECT (York University, Toronto).

The first of three thematically-connected shows on view across North America in mid-2025, this exhibition investigates art’s potential for reimagining our often narrow understandings of data and machine learning. Using the rivulet (a small, localized stream that flows into larger systems) as a conceptual starting point, the projects in this show work together to explore the ways that adjusting or reconfiguring our individual experiences of data-driven and machine learning systems might lead to broader systemic change. Through critique and subversion of existing technological systems, along with reflection on their prevalence in our lives, the works seen here offer ways to reimagine the data that surrounds us, and to ask what might be possible instead.

Data Fluencies: Rivulets features the work of six contemporary artists, alongside experimental research supported by the Mellon Foundation-funded Data Fluencies Project (based out of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University). The exhibition aims to provide open public engagement with the research outputs emerging from the larger project and place them next to cutting-edge and critical work of artists examining the same themes and ideas. Together, the artists and researchers featured here offer us ways to (re)consider our relationships with the data that drives our everyday lives—and perhaps find new routes to agency once we are able to do so.

The Data Fluencies exhibitions are generously supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver). Organized by Roopa Vasudevan, a co-PI on the Data Fluencies Project. Visual identity by PROPS SUPPLY.

#DATAFLUENCIES #SpeculativePasts #ThisIsNotHistory #FrihedLighedOgHipHop #TagPhreaks #DIFFUSEDSTATES

Join us for the opening seminar for the project Human-AI Collaboration: Imaginaries, Interventions, Interfaces (HAIC-III), with keynote by Olga Goriunova

Generative artificial intelligence complicates the ways in which we express and understand ourselves with and on computers. Our relations to the likenesses and personal styles of ourselves and our peers are somewhat rustled by technologies that both imitate and (often) banalize those very likenesses and styles. How do these neural network-induced technologies affect the ways in which we understand and negotiate our being as subjects and how do they relate to a broader data and platform culture? This opening seminar of the research project Human-AI Collaboration: Imaginaries, Interventions, Interfaces (HAIC-III) marks the beginning of addressing questions such as, how does generative artificial intelligence affect the conditions under which we express and understand ourselves? At the seminar, we will examine subjectivation and self-expressing with(in) generative artificial intelligence, which happens in a counterbalance with algorithmic interpellation and continuous extension of digital/ideal subjects.

Olga Goriunova, Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, will deliver a keynote on 22 May and participate in a master class workshop for PhDs on 23 May together with the other members of the research group.

About HAIC-III: Facing the rapid and continuous proliferation of generative artificial intelligence throughout society, HAIC-III aims to combine humanistic methods with art and design practices to understand these emerging technologies in a wider context of critical data studies, digital aesthetics, and software studies, and to nourish a critical, contentious, and practice-based notion of generative artificial intelligence as an aesthetic and cultural interface.

The seminar is supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, grant ID 10.46540/4256-00095B Preliminary program 22 May (location TBD)

10.00-10.15: Introduction to the seminar 
10.15-12.15 (incl. brief break): Olga Goriunova: Ideal Subjects: Abstract People in Data and Culture (abstract & bio below). 
12.15-13.00: Lunch 
13.00-15.15 (incl. brief break): Presentations from HAIC-III project members: Kristoffer Ørum, Søren Pold, Kristin Veel, Malthe Stavning Erslev 
15.15-15.45: Coffee break  
15.45-16.15: Presentation by Blue Cliff (TBC): What lies beneath
(working title) - Our relationship with the digital world, Ai and digital communication. The performance is a collaboration between Yael Gaathon (choreographer and performer), Christoffer Brekne (video artist) and kristian hverring (composer) 
16.00: End of seminar 

23 May (Aarhus Universitet, Åbogade 34 , 8200 Aarhus N. Building 5342 (ADA), room 333)

Masterclass for PhDs: 9.30-13.00

Registration: https://au.phd-courses.dk/CourseCatalog/ShowCourse/1746

AI & Identity: Ideal/digital subjects and their production through profiling, subjectivation, algorithmic interpellation and enunciation. How can we interpret, read and see this, which options does it leave for art, literature, music and critique?

For the workshop, we are looking for PhDs working with topics within generative AI, platform studies, social media and questions of identity.

At the workshop participants will be asked to give short presentations (10 minutes) and prepare by enegaging with a selection of approx. 5 topical readings. Participation in the workshop and opening seminar will award 1 ECTS. ABTRACT & BIO for Olga Goriunova’s keynote, May 22 10.00-12.00

When I am profiled on a movie streaming platform or given the truth of my sleep by my watch, what is the “me” that I have to deal with? The digital subject composed of my data and the data of others, evaluated and spun to make predictions is not my shadow but an abstraction whose making requires some distance. Distance is also core to the idea of the subject’s interiority (looking at, contemplating oneself) that we know from the thinking subject of modernity. The distance of digital subjects, therefore, is not only about fractured noisy data groupings but builds on how we are trained to be subjects. That is why digital subjects are successful: we know them as processes that result in truths, about us and about the world, which we are trained to want in order to become ourselves. Asking how digital subjects as patterns “come back” to us and compel us to want their “truths”, I answer that it is through configuring desire in relation to what is abstract that we learn to orientate ourselves towards calculations and projections now managed by data analytics and AI. From desiring the best test result to desiring the truth of one’s music-listening personality revealed by Spotify, it is about desiring abstractions that are ideal in two meanings of the word: as results of mathematical operations and something to aspire to or confront. The question then is how to make and want different ideals: after all, isn’t that key to what the arts are supposed to be about?

Olga Goriunova is Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London. She is the author of Ideal Subjects. Abstract People in Data and Culture (forthcoming 2025), Bleak Joys. Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (with Matthew Fuller, 2019), Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (2012) and editor of Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Pain and Paradox in Computing (2014). She was a co-curator of Readme, international touring software art festivals, 2001-2005 and Runme.org software art repository (2003+). She is also a founding co-editor of Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies.

https://darc.au.dk/blog/nyhed/artikel/default-2bcd7609df

(Photo: Ada Ada Ada: Being represented by data is like losing a part of yourself, 2024)

At the Edge II – Jamila Drott, Maxime Hourani, Maia Torp Neergaard, Kristoffer Ørum Curator Kevin Malcolm

14 March – 13 April 2025 Vernissage Friday 14 March 5–8pm

At the Edge II builds thematically on previous exhibition projects, where questions of place and identity, especially in relation to architecture and urban planning, were framed. At the Edge Part I was shown at Vermilion Sands in Copenhagen in the autumn of 2024. Part II is an extension of a first exhibition that will have a clearer connection to Malmö as a place and context. This series of exhibitions examine the role of the artist and the art space in urban transformations, while being situated in broader discussions about place, capitalism and identity, urban space, speculation and gentrification.

The exhibition features three of my AI-generated works that reimagine Malmö’s urban landmarks. These speculative images visualize alternative histories for the Old Gate at Folkets Park, Drottninggatan 6, and Malmö’s New City Hall. By blending historical elements with imagined possibilities, the works invite viewers to question how these spaces might have evolved differently through community use, resident modification, and the mixing of formal governance with street expression. The digital images complement the exhibition’s exploration of how urban spaces both shape and are shaped by the people who use them, offering new perspectives on Malmö’s architectural stories and potential futures.

Thanks to Lisa Strømbeck for Swedish proofreading @jamiladrott #maximehourani @maiatorpneergaard @kristofferorum @ks_malcolm @vermilion_sands

The exhibition is supported by Kulturrådet, Malmö stad, Region Skåne and Statens Kunstfond. @kulturradet.se @malmo_stad_officiell @regionskane @statenskunstfond

“Where the Walls Weep Sugar” at KH7 Artspace Exhibition

My work “Where the Walls Weep Sugar / Hvor Væggene Græder Sukker” is part of “TID, 26 værker, 26 minutter, 26 kunstnere” at KH7 Artspace running March 1-30, 2025.

The work combines an AI-generated photograph (flux.v1) with a 1-minute audio piece that transforms the industrial architecture of Sydhavnsgade 7. Each of the 26 works in this exhibition is meant to be viewed for exactly one minute, with audio guides available via QR code. Visitors should bring headphones for the full experience.

As a first-time guest with The Artist Association Jutland, I’m contributing to an organization that represents Denmark’s independent, artist-driven initiatives that form the core of the local art scene.

Participating Artists:Claus Ejner, Jette Ellgaard, Michael Boelt Fischer, Jette Gejl, Karen Havskov, Marianne Hesselbjerg, Peter Holm, Sophus Ejler Jepsen, Marianne Jørgensen, Leif Kath, Karin Lind, Sonja Lillebæk Christensen, Erland Knudssøn Madsen, Henrik Menné, Camilla Nørgård, Lise Nørholm, Eva Öhrling, Randi & Katrine, Kurt Tegtmeier, Klavs Weiss.

Guest Artists:Anna Bak, Consider to be Allies v. Mie Frederikke Fischer Christensen & Margaux Parillaud, Pernille With Madsen, Louise Sparre, Lars Worm, Kristoffer Ørum.

Exhibition Information:

KH7 Artspace, Sydhavnsgade 7, 8000 Aarhus C
Open Thursday-Sunday, 14:00-17:00
Opening: Saturday, March 1, 14:00-18:00
My work is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation
Exhibition supported by Aarhus Kommune and Knud Højgaards Fond

More information: www.kh7artspace.dk and www.ksjylland.dk “Hvor Væggene Græder Sukker” på KH7 Artspace udstilling

Mit værk “Where the Walls Weep Sugar / Hvor Væggene Græder Sukker” er en del af “TID, 26 værker, 26 minutter, 26 kunstnere” på KH7 Artspace fra 1.-30. marts 2025.

Værket kombinerer et AI-genereret fotografi (flux.v1) med et 1-minuts lydstykke, der transformerer den industrielle arkitektur på Sydhavnsgade 7. Hvert af de 26 værker på udstillingen er beregnet til at blive oplevet i præcis et minut, med lydguides tilgængelige via QR-kode. Besøgende opfordres til at medbringe høretelefoner for den fulde oplevelse.

Som førstegangs gæstekunstner hos Kunstnersammenslutningen Jylland bidrager jeg til en organisation, der repræsenterer Danmarks uafhængige, kunstnerdrevne initiativer, som udgør kernen i den lokale kunstscene.

Deltagende kunstnere:Claus Ejner, Jette Ellgaard, Michael Boelt Fischer, Jette Gejl, Karen Havskov, Marianne Hesselbjerg, Peter Holm, Sophus Ejler Jepsen, Marianne Jørgensen, Leif Kath, Karin Lind, Sonja Lillebæk Christensen, Erland Knudssøn Madsen, Henrik Menné, Camilla Nørgård, Lise Nørholm, Eva Öhrling, Randi & Katrine, Kurt Tegtmeier, Klavs Weiss.

Gæstekunstnere:Anna Bak, Consider to be Allies v. Mie Frederikke Fischer Christensen & Margaux Parillaud, Pernille With Madsen, Louise Sparre, Lars Worm, Kristoffer Ørum.

Udstillingsinformation:

KH7 Artspace, Sydhavnsgade 7, 8000 Aarhus C
Åben torsdag-søndag, 14:00-17:00
Åbning: Lørdag den 1. marts, 14:00-18:00
Mit værk er støttet af Statens Kunstfond
Udstillingen er støttet af Aarhus Kommune og Knud Højgaards Fond

Mere information: www.kh7artspace.dk og www.ksjylland.dk

I will be participating in a public discussion about creative experimentation with generative AI at Copenhagen University College. The event takes the form of a temporary community space focused on exploring the relationship between control, algorithms, and AI prompting.

The event features a conversation between myself and curator Majken Overgaard about how art and creative experiments can provide new perspectives on working with generative AI. The discussion will address questions about methodological approaches to surrendering control to machines and examine who or what we are delegating control to.

The space will showcase experiments with prompting as a creative practice by students and teachers, who have created “works to think with or be disturbed by.”

Event Details:

• Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025
• Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• Location: Campus Carlsberg, Humletorvet 3, Warehouse 1st floor, Atrium
• Address: 1799 Copenhagen V

Contact: Morten Philipps, Consultant moph@kp.dk, +45 51 63 26 88

I am participating as a guest artist in the exhibition “TID” (TIME) at KH7artspace in Aarhus, Denmark. My contribution, titled “Where the Walls Weep Sugar,” consists of an “AI” version of the KH7 exhibition space paired with a one-minute speculative narrative.

The exhibition features 26 artists, with each work allocated exactly one minute of viewing time. Each minute is defined by an audio component created by the artist, which can be accessed through a QR code-enabled audio guide. The complete viewing sequence takes 26 minutes.

Participating Artists: Claus Ejner, Jette Ellgaard, Michael Boelt Fischer, Jette Gejl, Karen Havskov, Marianne Hesselbjerg, Peter Holm, Sophus Ejler Jepsen, Marianne Jørgensen, Leif Kath, Karin Lind, Sonja Lillebæk Christensen, Erland Knudssøn Madsen, Henrik Menné, Camilla Nørgård, Lise Nørholm, Eva Öhrling, Randi & Katrine, Kurt Tegtmeier, Klavs Weiss

Guest Artists: Anna Bak, Consider to be Allies (Mie Frederikke Fischer Christensen & Margaux Parillaud), Pernille With Madsen, Louise Sparre, Lars Worm, Kristoffer Ørum

Exhibition Details:

• Dates: March 1-30, 2024
• Location: KH7artspace, Sydhavnsgade 7, 8000 Aarhus C
• Opening Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 2-5 PM

For inquiries: Jette Gejl, jettegejl@yahoo.dk, +45 26156710