Feral File proudly presents In/Visible, a profound and thought-provoking exhibition curated by the talented Linda Dounia. Showcasing a group of stunning artworks by Adaeze Okaro, Afroscope, Arclight, Jah., Minne Atairu, Moonsundiamond, Nygilia, Rayan Elnayal, Serwah, and Zoe Osborne, this exhibition explores the intersection of AI and artistic diversity in captivating ways.
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One of the most striking works featured in the exhibition is Jah.’s Blonde Braids Study II. Through this work, Jah. probes the inherent biases and mis-conceptualization that underlie AI-generated images. By examining the ways in which the text-to-image algorithm Midjourney (v4) renders a portrait of Black identical twins with blonde braids, this artwork brings attention to significant gaps in the training data that lead to flattened and incomplete representations of Black identities in AI-generated works.
Despite this challenge, Jah. manages to create a beautiful, searing portrait that captures the essence of the human experience in all its complexity and diversity. In doing so, Jah. invites us to reflect upon the limitations and possibilities of storytelling in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Join Feral File at the opening of In/Visible on Monday, June 12, 2023, for an unforgettable encounter with cutting-edge of AI and art.
“Any Black person using AI today can confidently attest that it doesn’t actually know them, that its conceptualization of their reality is a fragmentary, perhaps even violent, picture. In a world where AI’s understanding of humanity is as vast and layered as humanity itself, the human hands engineering its sentience and feeding it with data must recognize that their biases are logical by-products of the way they see and make sense of the world. That their biases are reflected in what/where/how they measure.
Black people are accustomed to being unseen. When we are seen, we are accustomed to being misrepresented. Too often, we have seen our realities ignored, distorted, or fabricated. These warped realities, often political instruments of exclusion, follow us around like shadows that we can never quite shake off. Still, like anyone, we crave to be visible. We want the world to hold space for our humanity.
This exhibition brings together artists who are defiantly visible, telling their stories using AI, a tool that, itself, acknowledges its shortcomings in understanding them. “While my training data includes information about black cultures and people, it is essential to recognize that my understanding is limited by the quality, diversity, and biases present in the data.” – ChatGPT 4.” Curator, Linda
Dounia.
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Featuring works from:
Adaeze Okaro @adaezeokaro
Afroscope @afroscope
Arclight
Jah. @artbyjah.eth
Linda Dounia Rebeiz @sandwyrmdance
Minne Atairu @minneatairu
Nygilia @nygi_xxv
Rayan Elnayal @rayan_elnayal
Serwah @wrath_____
Zoe Osborne @thezoekid1
In/Visible is minted on Ethereum. Each of the 10 artworks has 50 editions and will be priced at 0.015 ETH per edition.
