New Installation at the Ford Foundation Galleries

Center For No Center: A Reading Room
on view September 7 – December 9, 2023

Ford Foundation Gallery
320 E 43rd St, New York, NY 10017
Opening Thursday Sept. 7, 6-8pm
Curator Led Gallery Tour Friday Sept. 8,  12 – 1pm

Collaboration with Andrew Demirjian for the exhibit What Models Make Worlds: Critical Imaginaries of AI curated by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Meldia Yesayan.

Invoking the various meanings of “modeling,” the exhibition assembles the work of artists who map the limits of our current algorithmic imaginaries and move beyond them in acts of critical world building. Modifying a line from feminist technoscience scholar, Donna Haraway—“It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories”— the exhibition’s title reflects the featured artists’ interest in speculative worlding and in reimagining algorithmic systems.

Algorithmic worldmaking often unfolds in a “black box”––an opaque space of automated decision-making whose rationale is hidden from public view. The featured artists open up the black box for scrutiny, imagining possibilities for feminist, antiracist, and decolonial AI.