Planetary Portals: I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine
Intriguing exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery using AI to interrogate archive photographs.
It takes the archive of Cecil Rhodes, the miner and Imperialist, held at the University of Oxford and shows how applying AI learning to them to create single shot films enhances the original prejudices as AI replies on the data it finds in the original source.
Planetary Portals (Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Kerry Holden, Michael Salu & Kathryn Yusoff) is a research group that delves into imperial archives to produce critical cartographies.
It made me think more generally about how AI works and how it can distort information rather than clarifying it.
Closed 15 June 2025
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