Surrounding the fort: artificial intelligence, identity, art
ANDREA BARCARO
Abstract
This article stems from a speculative experimentation combining text with AI-powered visuality to reflect on the connection between technology and emerging posthuman identities in the context of the postcolonial environmental humanities. I make friends with an algorithm, the Midjourney Bot, and feed it prompts based on quotes by scholars from the fields of posthumanism, postcolonialism, and other branches of critical theory, with a focus on topics surrounding architecture, the human body, European identity, and the relation between technology and the Anthropocene. In my effort to explore how interaction with AI shapes our identities, I emphasise the role of dialogue with human and non-human Others in guiding design practices that inspire ethically charged, productive, and affirmative visions of our world.
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Posthumanism, postcolonialism, artificial intelligence, Anthropocene, Europe
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60-77