As part of the Big Ideas in Art and Culture lecture series presented by Musagetes and CAFKA, artist and academic Eryk Salvaggio presented a talk titled “Creative Misuse of A.I.” at the Art Gallery of Guelph. Can you use A.I. to resist A.I.? In the video below, Eryk Salvaggio describes his engagement with A.I. from the perspective of “creative misuse,” pushing A.I. image and sound tools to move beyond often exploitative and incomplete datasets to critique surveillance capitalism. How can artists use and critique technology at the same time? How do we make sense of the messy entanglements between culture, surveillance, and labour at the heart of A.I.?
Salvaggio’s video “documanifesto” on A.I. art was also previously published here on ArtsEverywhere.
