<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Dear all,</span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">I'm happy to announce that we just released a new book about the</span></font><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"> artistic research by </span></font>
<font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Sanela Jahić about the </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">use of artificial intelligence as a tool of exclusion</span></font><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">. Read below for more information.</span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">All the best,</span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Marcela</span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="1">Marcela Okretič<br>Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana<br><a href="http://www.aksioma.org">www.aksioma.org</a> <br></font></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font>
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<br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Sanela Jahić – Under the Calculative Gaze</b><br><a href="https://aksioma.org/under-the-calculative-gaze-book" target="_blank">https://aksioma.org/under-the-calculative-gaze-book</a></span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">“AI completes the enclosure that the autonomists called the social factory, where capitalist relations of power extend to the smallest corner of social reproduction. But the very generalisability of these algorithmic exploitations creates the ground for a recomposition of resistance from forms of relationality that still escape the algorithmic gaze.” ― Dan McQuillan<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">After two successful gallery presentations of the project <i><a href="https://aksioma.org/under.calculative.gaze" target="_blank"><b>Under the Calculative Gaze</b></a></i>, which juxtaposes concrete examples of the use of artificial intelligence as a tool of exclusion with examples of collective practices of self-organisation and solidarity, artist Sanela Jahić now presents the findings of her critically oriented research into the social applications of artificial intelligence in a book.<br><br><i><b><a href="https://aksioma.org/under-the-calculative-gaze-book" target="_blank">Under the Calculative Gaze</a></b></i> is a paperback adaptation of <b><a href="https://sanelajahic.com/" target="_blank">Sanela Jahić</a></b>’s artistic research that investigates how socially-applied technological tools are not only directly intertwined with unresolved injustices of our current system, but actually accelerate a transition towards authoritarianism that is present in the technology industry itself, in the politics of various countries and institutions, and in the rise of far-right political movements.<br><br>The artist examines the political resonances of AI as it offers greater social efficiency through acts of separation and segregation. The targets of the extensive digital control and algorithmic optimization are typically “low-rights environments,” where expectations of political responsibility and transparency are low. These sites are used for the introduction of process automation and predictive analytics, amplifying vulnerabilities stemming from long-standing social policies, increasing neoliberal inequalities, and accelerating different dimensions of necropolitics.<br><br>To counteract this, collective practices of self-organization are presented, where positions of social and political disadvantage give rise to solidarity across differences and beyond models of algorithmic governance.</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><b style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://aksioma.org/under-the-calculative-gaze-book" target="_blank">TAKE A LOOK INSIDE AND ORDER</a></b></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">-----<br><br><b>Colophon</b><br><br>Editor: Janez Fakin Janša<br>Editorial assistant: Maja Burja <br>Translator and language editor: Miha Šuštar<br>Design and layout: Jaka Neon, based on IBM’s open-source Carbon Design System <br><br>Print: Collegium Graphicum<br>Number of copies: 300<br>Format: 10.5 x 16.7 cm<br>Pages: 216<br><br>Language: EN<br>Year: 2023<br>ISBN: 978-961-7173-31-4 <br><br>Published by: <a href="https://aksioma.org/" target="_blank">Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</a><br>Represented by: Marcela Okretič<br>Promotion and distribution: Sonja Grdina<br>Ljubljana, August 2023 | © Aksioma, the authors<br><br>In the framework of <a href="https://kons-platforma.org/en/" target="_blank">konS ≡ Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art</a><br>konS is a project chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres”. The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.</span></font></div></div>
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