AI: Ancestral Immediacies–Technologies of Making the Past Present, 28.–30.7.2023

AI: Ancestral Immediacies–Technologies of Making the Past Present
28.–30.7.2023

AI: Ancestral Immediacies presents screenings, performances, talks, lectures and installations that question the dominant narratives of AI as disembodied, universal, and superintelligent. 
Contrary to the technocratic vision of AI that will either dominate or destroy the human, AI—and technology in general—have always been inseparable from cultural histories and human bodies. AI emerges from reductive categories and social truths, its impacts lie not in a distant future, but are felt and sensed already in the present, for example through targeted advertising, or denial of access to housing, work, or state subsidies through biometric misrecognition.

AI: Ancestral Immediacies positions ancestrality as a technology of collective knowledge, bringing a plurality of pasts into immediacy, which is to say situating the past in the now. Artists, theorists,  coders and other practitioners discuss modalities of prediction and building futurity from untravelled and underappreciated pasts and presences. What technologies of divination and prediction lead into what futures? How are ritualistic practices and technologies of knowledge production based on pattern recognition? And how does technocratic vision impede, extract from, and destroy other ancestral and divine mediations of other futures past?

Contributors:
Sammy Baloji, blk banaana, Che Buford, Manthia Diawara, Ariana Dongus, Marisa Duarte, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Josh Anio Grigg, Karen Hao, Sun-ha Hong, Tung-Hui Hu, Özgün Eylül İşcen, Petja Ivanova, Exosé Existe, Nane Kahle, Kwasi Konadu, Vishal Kumaraswamy, Outi Laiti, Astan Meyer, Tabita Rezaire, SERAFINE1369, Zora Snake, Joana Varon

Free entrance. All events except the film discussion will be translated simultaneously.

Friday, 28. July 2023
AI: African Intelligence
Film Screening and Conversation with Manthia Diawara & Kwasi Konadu
Miriam Makeba Auditorium
18:00-20:30

When the Spirits Dance We
Performance by Adama Delphine Fawundu & Che Buford
Semra Ertan Garden
20:30

Saturday, 29. July 2023
There is No Such Thing as Past or Future! AI Colonialism, Ancestral Immediacies and the Order of the Multiple Present 
Filmscreening “Deep Down Tidal” byTabita Rezaire and Keynote by Karen Hao
Safi Faye Hall
14:00-15:00

Before and After Certainty. Technologies of Knowledge Production in an Age of Speculation
Panel discussion with Sun Ha Hong, Kwasi Konadu, and Joana Varon, moderated by Petja Ivanova
Safi Faye Hall
15:00-16:30

AI: Ancestral Interconnection, the Multidimensional Aspect of Datas
Performance by Nane Khale, Zora Snake, Exocé Existe & Astan Meyer
Bessie Head Foyer
16:30-17:30

Holding Deadlock
Keynote by Tung-Hui Hu, followed by a conversation with Vishal Kumaraswamy
Safi Faye Hall
18:00-19:30

Sunday, 30. July 2023
Counter-Futuring: Past Futures and Speculative Presences of Computing
Keynote by Özgün Eylül İşcen, followed by a conversation with Ariana Dongus
Safi Faye Hall
15:00-17:00

Part of the Fabric of the Universe, and in a Particular Position to Marvel at its Great Beauty
Panel discussion with Sammy Baloji, Outi Laiti, Marisa Duarte & Karen Hao
Safi Faye Hall
17:00-18:30

I I I (something flat, something cosmic, something endless)
Performance by SERAFINE1369
Forough Farrokhzad Garden
19:00-20:00

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Opening Times
Wed.–Mon. 12:00–19:00
Extended opening hours during evening programmes.

Free admission on Mondays and on every first Sunday of the month (Museumssonntag Berlin).

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Jan Trautmann

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Lead Communications Officer
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

T: + 49 (0) 30 397 87 157
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