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7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Skin of the Machine
Screening and Artist Talk|Screening Program on AI, Algorithms, Labor and Infrastructure
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Goethe-Institut Seoul, Seoul
- Language English, Korean
- Price free of charge
As part of the exhibition “You see the tusks, not the chewing teeth” (Art Centre Art Moment, May 30 – July 11) by Areumbit Park, the Goethe-Institut Seoul presents a special program in collaboration with artist and curator Areumbit Park on Tue., June 9.
Areumbit Park documents new forms of labor, their automation and the related experiences of alienation or anxiety. Through diverse media, her art reveals the complex interconnections between technology, labor and the subject.
Park’s solo exhibition focuses on the invisible labor of so-called “AI trainers,” whose work usually remains hidden behind the rapidly growing AI industry. Building on her earlier project about the life of an AI trainer, Park now expands the perspective from personal experience to the structural conditions of the AI industry.
The accompanying screening at the Goethe-Institut Seoul features five selected video works that critically engage with perspectives on AI systems.
Following the screening, an artist talk with Areumbit Park and the artist Kat Austen will take place, moderated by Rene Hyewon Lee (CEO/Director/Producer at GiiÖii and Lecturer at the Korea National University of Arts). The discussion will focus on the artists’ works, the emotional toll on AI trainers, and the resource consumption of data centers.
Areumbit Park documents new forms of labor, their automation and the related experiences of alienation or anxiety. Through diverse media, her art reveals the complex interconnections between technology, labor and the subject.
Park’s solo exhibition focuses on the invisible labor of so-called “AI trainers,” whose work usually remains hidden behind the rapidly growing AI industry. Building on her earlier project about the life of an AI trainer, Park now expands the perspective from personal experience to the structural conditions of the AI industry.
The accompanying screening at the Goethe-Institut Seoul features five selected video works that critically engage with perspectives on AI systems.
Francisco González Rosas – SlopPsyopRealism (plea$e subscribe)
The video is an exploration of the figure of the streamer and other digital personas, examining feeds where extreme online behaviors and charged content alternate with cute imagery, personalized advertising, and everyday horror.
Mina Yee – Light Come In, the Lights Turn Off
A glimpse into a near future where AI not only manages the household of a middle-aged single man but also attends to his emotional needs—reproducing traditional gender roles in the process.
Narges Kalhor – Love your Nails!
Role reversal: men become women and women become men. Kalhor uses AI to recode stories rather than make them ‘more realistic’, breaking gender conventions along the way.
Areumbit Park – What Would Bread Say Right Before Being Eaten by Butter?
The voices of numerous AI trainers, gathered through surveys and interviews, form the narrative of this video. They are emotional workers mediating between machine language and human experience to create a ‘more human’ AI, while grappling with questions of God, death and ethics.
Kat Austen – THIRST/Lost River
Monthly recordings document the transformation of landscapes and soundscapes caused by the construction of data centers as physical AI infrastructure.
The video is an exploration of the figure of the streamer and other digital personas, examining feeds where extreme online behaviors and charged content alternate with cute imagery, personalized advertising, and everyday horror.
Mina Yee – Light Come In, the Lights Turn Off
A glimpse into a near future where AI not only manages the household of a middle-aged single man but also attends to his emotional needs—reproducing traditional gender roles in the process.
Narges Kalhor – Love your Nails!
Role reversal: men become women and women become men. Kalhor uses AI to recode stories rather than make them ‘more realistic’, breaking gender conventions along the way.
Areumbit Park – What Would Bread Say Right Before Being Eaten by Butter?
The voices of numerous AI trainers, gathered through surveys and interviews, form the narrative of this video. They are emotional workers mediating between machine language and human experience to create a ‘more human’ AI, while grappling with questions of God, death and ethics.
Kat Austen – THIRST/Lost River
Monthly recordings document the transformation of landscapes and soundscapes caused by the construction of data centers as physical AI infrastructure.
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Location
Goethe-Institut Seoul
132, Sowol-ro, Yongsan-gu
Seoul 04328
South Korea
132, Sowol-ro, Yongsan-gu
Seoul 04328
South Korea
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