05/26/2023
Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for a really exciting and generative conversation around the exhibition topics: AI, poetry, meaning, identity, politics and collaborations!! Itziar Barrio, Candystore and Jared Katzman, moderated by the brilliant Thyrza Nichols Goodeve. You can watch it on our instagram reels! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cscd5IXK0pf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
๐ตโฐThe exhibition is up until June 9! Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 7 pm, DON'T MISS IT!
La MaMa presents โand Dan and (when some small metal is spun)โ, a video based project by Itziar Barrio involving the creation of a narrative using artificial-intelligence. The resulting grammar is a glitched, a subverted and at times incorrect one. The language of poetry prevails in the final text resisting logic and opening future horizons. Itziar Barrioโs solo exhibition will include and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) video, and related works. Barrio has developed this project as a member at the New Museumโs incubator NEW INC.
This piece uses now legacy technology, GPT-2, a form of generative large-language Transformer model that was a predecessor to ChatGPT. The script was generated in collaboration with creative technologist Jared Katzman, by using an algorithm that mimicked an amalgamation of texts across three datasets: a collection of texts from the Cyberfeminism Index; a subset of Poetry books from Project Gutenberg; and a manuscript of poetry from the performer Candystore.
Photos by nne_fro