EthicAI=LABS presents: The exhibition House of Mirrors: Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm at HMKV

EthicAI=LABS is back with our first public, virtual event for 2022. Join us on 14th June at 6pm (UTC +3) for a fireside chat with Inke Arns, Director of HMКV, Dortmund, Germany. We’ll be discussing the exhibition House of Mirrors: Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm currently displayed at Hartware MedienKunstVerein. The exhibition features the work of more than 20 artists for an exploration of AI. From the technologies that casually have become part of our daily lives like face recognition, smart home devices and self-driving cars to the deep political, socio-economical and philosophical implications they bring to the human-machine connection.

At 6pm we’ll start with a presentation of the exhibition’s concept and participants getting deeper into the seven sections of the exhibition. After the virtual preview of the exhibit we will wrap up with a Q&A by both our 2022 EthicAI=LABS fellows and questions from the livestream audience.


ABOUT HOUSE OF MIRRORS
The exhibition House of Mirrors: Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm takes the common clichés about AI as an opportunity to talk about issues such as hidden human labor, algorithmic bias/discrimination, the problem of categorization and classification, and our fantasies about AI. It asks whether (and how) it is possible for us to reclaim agency in this context. The exhibition is divided into seven thematic chapters. The scenography of the exhibition is reminiscent of a giant house of mirrors.
Featuring works by Aram Bartholl, Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Stéphane Degoutin, Sean Dockray, Jake Elwes, Anna Engelhardt, Nicolas Gourault, Adam Harvey + Jules LaPlace, Libby Heaney, Lauren Huret, Zheng Mahler, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Simone C Niquille, Elisa Giardina Papa, Julien Prévieux, Anna Ridler, RYBN, Sebastian Schmieg, Gwenola Wagon, Conrad Weise and Mushon Zer-Aviv

INKE ARNS | BIO
Inke Arns, PhD, director of HMKV in Dortmund, Germany (www.hmkv.de). She has worked internationally as an independent curator and theorist specializing in media art, net cultures, and Eastern Europe since 1993. After living in Paris (1982-1986) she studied Russian literature, Eastern European studies, political science, and art history in Berlin and Amsterdam (1988–1996 M.A.) and in 2004 received her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin. She has curated many exhibitions – at the bauhaus dessau, MG+MSUM Ljubljana, Gallery EXIT Pejë, KW Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, CCA Glasgow, CCA Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, HMKV Dortmund, HKW Berlin, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, La Gaîté Lyrique Paris, MMOMA Moscow, BOZAR Brussels, NCCA Yekaterinburg, exportdrvo Rijeka, a.o. She is the author of many articles on contemporary art, media art and net culture, and has edited numerous exhibition catalogues and books. In 2021-2022 Visiting Professor for Curatorial Practice at the Münster Art Academy. Since 2022 a member of the Academy of the Arts of the World (ADKDW), Cologne. 2022 Curator of the Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo (artist: Jakup Ferri), 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. www.inkearns.de