Martin Nadal - The workforce of the latent space /KIKK24

Biography:
Martin Nadal, a media artist based in Berlin. With a degree in Computer Engineering and additional training at Kunst Uni, Linz, Austria, Nadal immerses his audience in deep explorations of how technological frameworks such as blockchain and neural networks are shaping our era and our perception of it.
Throughout his career, he has made his mark at prestigious international institutions, from the Nam June Paik Center in Korea to the ZKM in Germany. However, beyond his striking work, what sets Nadal apart is his ability to translate technological complexities into visual narratives that question and reflect on our relationship with technology. His pieces, such as "FANGØ" and "Bittercoin" (made with César Escudero), are palpable examples of this confluence between art, innovation and social criticism.

Talk topic: "The workforce of the latent space"
We live in an era where every ‘like’ we give and every image we post on social media contributes to the creation of a vast, private latent space. This latent space is a high-dimensional representation where our data (images, texts, sounds, etc.) is used to power the AI models of corporations.
In this talk, Martin Nadal will explore the relationship between the owners of these spaces and our unpaid digital labor, introducing his latest artistic projects that propose ways of resisting these dinamics.