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URL:https://map-india.org/map-events/living-with-machines-a-critical-appro
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SUMMARY:Living With Machines: A Critical Approach to Technology in Art
DESCRIPTION:This series of talks brings together artists Manuel Beltran\, C
 hinar Shah\, Mithu Sen\, and Anisha Baid\, each exploring technology from 
 a distinct vantage point. Ranging from bio-hacking to myth-making to acts
  of appropriation\, their practices reflect diverse ways of living in — 
 and thinking against — a hyper-technological world. The conversation wil
 l close with a discussion on the shifting landscape of art and tech today:
  What does it mean to make art about technology\, and what does it take to
  make art through it?\n\nComputer as Woman - Anisha Baid\n\nThis presentat
 ion will trace a body of work across performance\, sculpture\, and video t
 hat explores the feminized labor histories embedded in the computer interf
 ace. These works look at the computer as not simply a tool\, but a surface
  of work haunted by histories of work\, capital and habit. Through these w
 orks\, I approach technology not as an inevitable outcome\, but as a cultu
 rally and politically contingent reality—shaped by specific histories\, 
 decisions\, and omissions - and one that\, in turn\, continues to shape us
  and mold us - how we sit\, how we talk\, and how we work.\n\nScreenshots 
 - Chinar Shah\n\nIn this talk\, I reflect on my practice as a screenshot 
 photographer through the intertwined histories of documentary photography 
 and family albums. As I navigate my digital life by making images\, I am d
 rawn to visual practices that are on the peripheries of networked culture
 —images created to circulate as information but exceed their intended me
 aning. By situating screenshot photography within the documentary impulse\
 , I explore how such images complicate established understandings of photo
 graphic indexicality\, and how they contribute to evolving forms of image-
 making within the online space.\n\nHammers in the Server Room - Manuel Bel
 tran\n\nIn this talk I will offer some thoughts about the Luddite movement
  to reflect upon how the current contestations we face in AI and Big Tech 
 aren't completely new\, and how they connect with similar conditions that 
 the Luddites were challenging during the Industrial Revolution. With this 
 in mind\, and through the lens of the project Institute of Human Obsolesce
 nce (IoHO)\, I will present questions about the role of AI in automation\,
  and the exploitation of data as a form of invisible labour. The IoHO stag
 es a series of installations and interventions that propose a different fr
 amework through which to reorganise our relationship with contemporary tec
 hnologies."\n\nDigital Un-native - Mithu Sen\n\nI navigate the digital wo
 rld with deliberate discomfort—refusing fluency\, embracing glitches\, a
 nd reclaiming virtual space as a site of resistance\, care\, and feminist 
 untranslatability.
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