Mariana Fernández Mora (MX/NL) is a visual artist and researcher based in Amsterdam, she is interested in dynamics of power, algorithms and the relation between geographical and digital landscapes. With a background in architecture her work usually involves interdisciplinary installations that search to give body to the videos she creates. In 2018 she graduated from The Gerrit Rietveld Academy and currently she is part of the masters program F for Fact at The Sandberg Institute where she is researching our intimate and sometimes problematic relationships with technology and co-writing her thesis with Natural Language Processors like GPT3 and Replika.
Algorithmic Cultures – Every day, we consume hundreds of images. We use them, ignore them, absorb, object and devour them. They are the digital material that shapes our online worlds, seducing us into the pull of our devices.
Algorithmic Cultures – For the start of the new season, we are happy to invite you to the first material playground of the Slow AI x Artificial Worlds sessions, organised together with ARIAS and hosted by Dorin Budușan and Sofía Fernández Blanco. The material playground will take place in Auditorium 101 of Sandberg Instituut on September 19th from 9:30 to 13:30. The invitation is open for all Rietveld, Sandberg and HvA students.
In this round table discussion, we will explore how the human rating system creates a numeric value reflected in number of likes, number of YouTube reproductions, social media metrics and the way that platforms and apps have created a system of hierarchies and strata to measure life’s worth. We will discuss how through this human ratings system the logic of the algorithm intervenes in human subjectivity expanding the project of valuation of human life that has been instrumental to the capitalist administration of life itself.