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SUMMARY:DH-Research Seminar - By Nora Al-Badri
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DESCRIPTION:Nora Al-Badri\nTitle: Babylonian Vision - decolonising collect
 ions\nAbstract :Al-Badri will discuss her latest works “Babylonian Visio
 n” and “Neural Ancestral Sculptures Series” which will be displayed 
 at EPFL Pavilions\, in Pavilion A\, starting 26th of May.  She uses Gener
 al Adversarial Networks to generate technoheritage and to decolonise the l
 argest collections of Mesopotamian artefacts in the Global North. The arti
 st will dive into questions of ethical AI\, the Blackbox problem in her wo
 rk as well as artistic explorations towards synthetic image-making by show
 casing her use of  Southern datasets as an archive of abundance. \nBio: 
 https://www.nora-al-badri.de/about\nNora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary 
 and conceptual media artist with a German-Iraqi background. Her works are 
 research-based as well as paradisciplinary and as much post-colonial as po
 st-digital. She lives and works in Berlin. She graduated in political scie
 nces at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and was the fi
 rst artist-in-residence at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (EPF
 L) and its Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) in 2020. Her practi
 ce focuses on the politics and the emancipatory potential of new technolog
 ies such as machine intelligence or data sculpting\, non-human agency and 
 transcendence. Al-Badri’s artistic material is a speculative archaeology
  from fossils to artefacts or performative interventions in museums and ot
 her public spaces\, that respond to the inherent power structures.\nHer wo
 rk was featured at The New York Times\, BBC\, The Times\, Artnet\, Wired\,
  Le Monde Afrique\, Financial Times\, Arte TV\, The Independent\, New Stat
 esmen\, Hyperallergic\, Smithsonian\, Al Ahram\, Egypt Today\, Vice\, Hür
 riyet\, Dezeen\, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung\, Spiegel Online\,
  Heise\, The Boston Globe\, Dezeen\, Archdaily\, Polska\, La informacion\,
  De Volkskrant\, Gizmodo\, New Scientist\, Popular Science and The Verge a
 mongst others.\nHer works got granted by several institutions like Haus de
 r Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, Goethe-Institut\, Institut für Auslandsbezieh
 ungen (IfA)\, German Federal Foreign Office and European Cultural Foundati
 on (ECF)\, Senate of Berlin City.\nShe has exhibited in the Viktoria and A
 lbert Museums' Applied Arts Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia\, 3rd Desig
 n Biennal Istanbul\, ZKM Karlsruhe\, Science Gallery\, Dublin\, NRW Forum\
 , Space Fundacion Telefonica\, Berliner Herbstsalon - Gorki Theater\, Ars 
 Electronica\, Abandon Normal Devices\, The Influencers\, Gray Area Festiva
 l Art& Technology etc.\nAl-Badri regularly gives classes and lectures at u
 niversities and museums all over the world such as Techne Institute at Uni
 versity of Buffalo\, MassArt Boston\, UDK university Berlin\, Hochschule W
 eissensee Berlin\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm\, Universit
 y of Halle and IRIBA Center for Multimedia Heritage and different Kigali\,
  Warburg Institute and Central Saint Martins College London\, UCL London\,
  Einstein Center for Digital Future Berlin\, Leuphana University Lüneburg
 \, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg\, Migros Foundation\, Haus der el
 ektronischen Künste Basel\, Mozilla Festival and many more.\nShe is actin
 g as jury member for the Chaos Communication Congress' Arts & Culture Trac
 k\, the jury of Berlinale Peace Price from Heinrich Böll Foundation (2019
 ) and the jury of the Digital Academy Dortmund (2019). Since 2009\, she co
 llaborates with Jan Nikolai Nelles in some of her works.
LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/83127520995 https://epfl.zoom.us/j/83
 127520995
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