Worldism: On AI, egregores, and machines that bleed
Artist and research Gary Zhexi Zhang will give a talk exploring systemic connections between cosmology, technology and economy.
He will examine identity and individuation in the economy of digital life, beginning with the bodies of parasocial, transindividual agency that populate the internet we have come to know, and into the time of artificial intelligences that meet humans at the threshold of their own incomprehensibility. What forms of subjectivity emerge from the pandemonium of cognitive assemblages, generative realities and artificial agents LARPing as humans as well as machines? Drawing on techno-cultural histories and contemporary developments, Gary Zhexi Zhang explores the predicaments of neural media.
Date: 30 January 2025, 17:00
Venue: Ruskin School of Art, 74 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: 128 Bullingdon Rd, Oxford OX4 1QP. Accessibility information: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingdon-road
Speaker: Gary Zhexi Zhang
Organising department: Ruskin School of Art
Organiser contact email address: info@rsa.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Contemporary Art Lectures
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://bit.ly/Ruskin_ContArtTalks
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Johanna Gullberg