What happens when an image leaves a state archive and enters the feedback loops of an artificial neural network?
Five Arts Centre is pleased to present the world premiere of a new lecture performance with generative AI by Singapore-based artist Ho Rui An - ahead of a showing at the Centre Pompidou in Paris later 2024.
Beginning with this speculation, Figures of History and the Grounds of Intelligence travels back in time to probe the intersecting histories of state planning, global networks and cybernetics that started with the Cold War and eventually precipitated the ongoing boom in generative artificial intelligence.
Looking into how different historical figurations have come to make up the grounds of “intelligence” that underpin today’s generative AI models, the performance reflects on what it means for these models to draw upon “memory” not for the narration of history but for the endless generation and regeneration of target distributions of noise. At stake here is the future of representation itself—a future where images would appear to have no history to speak of.
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