<synthesis> panel discussion: Museums, Archives, AI, and other Epistemic Infrastructures (diffrakt, Berlin, 3 May, 7.30pm)

[Gabriel Menotti]

Hey all!

In case it might be of interest for those in Berlin this week:

*Museums, Archives, AI, and other Epistemic Infrastructures*
Friday, 3 May 2024, 7.30 pm, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery
Crellestraße 22, 10827 Berlin

Conversation with
Víctor Fancelli Capdevila | Lisa Deml | Nathalia Lavigne | Gabriel Menotti

Modernity’s pretenses at universality were connected to the propagation of
infrastructures to materialize, accumulate, and reproduce information.
Institutions such as archives, museums, libraries, and universities have
long constituted hegemonic bodies of knowledge by synchronizing and staging
them as such. It comes as no surprise that these institutions fall into a
crisis as new media platforms challenge their purported monopoly over truth
making. The open internet, social media, and, more recently, large language
models have accelerated the displacement of modern information systems,
allowing for the multiplication of fragmented worldviews. But if on the one
hand we must contend with ‘alternative’ truths and hallucinated ‘evidence’,
on the other, we have gained multiple opportunities for epistemic dissent
and disobedience. How might these emerging infrastructures affect the
politics of knowing, remembering, and imagining?

This conversation brings together curators, archivists, and scholars
working at the intersection of art (institutions) and (information)
technologies to discuss productive tensions between institutionalized and
insurgent epistemic infrastructures. We will be addressing activities such
as the expansion of museums’ public programmes by digital networks, the use
of proxy heritage to challenge cultural dispossession, and the creation of
decentralized archives for the activation of subaltern historical
narratives.

http://diffrakt.space/en/museums-archives-ai-and-other-epistemic-infrastructures
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