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<div><i><b>You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens</b></i><br>
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<div>June 24-July 18, 2021<br>
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>https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/festival-you-and-ai-through-the-alg<span
></span>orithmic-lens/</div>
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<div>As AI starts to shape our everyday lives, who shapes AI? How are
we affected by machines making decisions we might not even be aware
of?<br>
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<div><a
href=
"https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/fz840grl2t395/track-url/rl482sqxhp5a5/a6a498976b32d4a41f55e564fd721c6e36bf5f78"><i><b><span
></span>You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens</b></i></a> is a
three-week festival by <a
href=
"https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/fz840grl2t395/track-url/rl482sqxhp5a5/c204b89c4c1e4aeeaf34e4e3a641f9e08d1bdc57"><b><span
></span>Onassis Stegi</b></a>, with a public space exhibition,
exploring how and by whom algorithmic systems are constructed and
defined, and how they can impact and reshape society and our
perception of the world.<br>
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<div>The festival is centered around a <a
href=
"https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/fz840grl2t395/track-url/rl482sqxhp5a5/3f792b986eb28638b4b85dba3147b25755c7366a"><span
></span>physical exhibition</a> at <a
href=
"https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/fz840grl2t395/track-url/rl482sqxhp5a5/9264848ef8aae08332616a5ed856c57fc8b26750"><b><span
></span>Pedion tou Areos</b></a> park in Athens; a historically,
politically, socially and environmentally important site, a public
gathering and leisure space, but also a barometer of socioeconomic
changes. With a program featuring online experiences, live events and
debates,<i> You & AI</i> aims to initiate much needed conversation
around an increasingly technological society and the challenges of the
wide adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic systems and
machine decision making processes in everyday life.<br>
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<div>From personal and home devices (smart assistants, light and
temperature sensors, robot vacuum cleaners etc), AI applications have
been rapidly expanding into public space. Systems that monitor and
identify us, from surveillance, facial recognition and thermal imaging
cameras to Wi-Fi tracking include some of the visible and invisible
ways through which AI is implemented in public space. In a society
often characterised by inequality, racism and unfairness, algorithmic
systems and machine decision making processes are used to monitor,
profile and categorise the world creating a more predictable and
controllable version of it. If AI and algorithmic systems are largely
owned and controlled by a few, how can we reclaim this space creating
infrastructures that are more transparent, fair, equitable and
caring?<br>
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<div>The public space exhibition at Pedion tou Areos park is divided
in three thematic areas, presenting 25 works that include video and
sound installations, as well as prints and physical objects:<br>
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<div><i><b>AI, civic space, participation and democracy</b></i>
presents works that show worlds through artificial, invisible systems
and new digital bureaucracies. Worlds that are increasingly quantified
and categorised by algorithmic systems. Do we control the machine, or
does the machine control us? Are we experiencing our surroundings
differently through the eyes of the technologies that try to make
sense of it?<br>
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<div><i><b>Seeing and being seen through algorithms</b></i> is
exploring how algorithmic systems can usually interpret what they see
in limited or monocultural ways, just like humans often do. AI is not
neutral. Could we learn with machines to better understand our cosmos?
Can AI become more fair or diverse?<br>
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<div><i><b>Artificial, intelligence and nature</b></i> raises
questions around intelligence, creativity and our relationship with
other species. In a contradictory way, AI as a consuming power of huge
amounts of energy and environmental and human resources, it is often
being deployed to understand or respond to environmental change. Can
AI help us reimagine human and non-human relationships, "better"
the planet, or recover lost species?<br>
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<div>Part of the <a
href=
"https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/fz840grl2t395/track-url/rl482sqxhp5a5/e3be72c1122325f19d49f07652cb443ac3372184"><span
></span>European ARTificial Intelligence Lab</a> network co-funded by
the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.</div>
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