Join us on Tuesday 6th May 2025, 18:30-17:00, at The Photographers’ Gallery, for The Hypothetical Image: Reading the Artifacts of Generative AI, a talk by artist, hacker and policy researcher Eryk Salvaggio. Organised by Digital x Data Research Centre. Book a place here.
How might we “read” the media produced by generative artificial intelligence? The artist, writer and tech policy researcher Eryk Salvaggio suggests we engage them as infographics: data visualizations, or sonification, of archives and datasets that strives for plausibility rather than expression or documentation. In a presentation blending artistic research into images, video, and sound, Salvaggio also examines the ways artists can hijack the spectacle of AI to engage more critically with its politics and dangers of AI ordering the world on our behalf.
Eryk Salvaggio (cyberneticforests.com) is a blend of artist, hacker and policy researcher interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence. His work explores the creative misuse of AI and reflects on how AI changes our definitions of the human. His award-winning work has been exhibited on four continents, including The New Museum and SXSW. He is a researcher with the metaLab at Harvard University, a Tech Policy Press Fellow, and a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (USA) in Humanities, Computing & Design.
Image: Pollen Series Color 4 by Eryk Salvaggio.