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These images, referred to as "cosmotechnical artifacts," are intended to reflect the diverse and complex narratives of the Global South, challenging dominant technological paradigms and reimagining them through a Southern lens. Through qualitative analysis of spectator feedback, we examine how the integration of algorithmic imagination and African anthropological data can foster new understandings of identity, history, and cultural memory. This study not only contributes to the discourse on the role of AI in art but also emphasizes the importance of a Global South perspective in the development and interpretation of digital technologies.
Quantum Echoes of Humanity open up the possibilities for us to observe the notion of hybrid practices and interactivity as specific categories to qualify those artistic operations based on computer systems whose form is determined by the user intervention or by signals from the environment. And it is no longer just or exclusively an object to be contemplated, the work becomes an open space for encounter and participation that takes shape and evolves thanks to the relationship of mutual exchange with all those who access it, as well as the relationships and practices that arise within a laboratory.
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The interactive nature of the piece invites viewers into an ever-changing experience, where algorithmic processes produce unique visual and sonic outputs with each encounter. Using facial recognition software in an unconventional way, the project introduces mis-recognition and recursion, undoing surveillance logics and disrupting racial and gendered codes inherent in computational models. This subversive use of technology critiques its common associations with control, surveillance, and conformity, offering instead a reflection on the multiplicity and fluidity of identity. In this way, an aesthetic-artistic experience emerges in which the category of relationship assumes a structural value to be investigated in its conditions of possibility and its implications, from the dialogue with those projects that, abandoning the artificial effect of perspectives, simulative and spectacular, they themselves become an inexhaustible source of the possible.