Artistic Reflections on Bias and Historical Context

Claudia Larcher is an artist exploring AI bias and representation through her work "AI and the Art of Historical Reinterpretation", a growing fictional image archive of history, reinterpreting the past with inclusivity and diversity.

Claudia shares her artistic approach of injecting diverse representations into AI training data as a form of activism to highlight opportunities in an era of rapid technological change.

GUEST

Her work spans video animation, collage, photography, and installation, with a focus on the impacts and experimental uses of artificial intelligence.

HOST

Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.

IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT

• AI and Art of Historical Reinterpretation https://www.claudialarcher.com/work/theartofhistoricalreinterpretation
• Still Life 3000 by Claudia Larcher https://www.claudialarcher.com/work/stilllife3000
• Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford uncovers the infrastructure that makes AI possible https://katecrawford.net/atlas
• Spawning AI helps artists opt out of training large AI models https://spawning.ai/
• Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A trip into a mirror world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger:ATripintotheMirrorWorld

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Editorial & Production Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Mike Evans, Nick Houde, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Alice Smith, Heinz Wolf.

Theme Music by Hell Mutang.