{"id":33314,"date":"2021-02-21T10:14:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sineglossa.it\/?post_type=progetto&p=33314"},"modified":"2025-03-15T17:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T17:21:35","slug":"food-data-digestion","status":"publish","type":"progetto","link":"https:\/\/sineglossa.it\/en\/projects\/food-data-digestion\/","title":{"rendered":"FOOD DATA DIGESTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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FOOD DATA DIGESTION is an artistic research and production project born out of the collaboration between Play with Food and Sineglossa and some questions: if artificial intelligences are machines created to reason, express themselves and act like human beings, then how does an AI feed itself? What does it eat? The answer we gave ourselves is that the nourishment of a machine is data, but then the questions multiplied: how does the machine react to a certain nourishment? Is there such a thing as toxic data? Can an artificial intelligence be intolerant?<\/p>

From these questions, which aim to stimulate an unsurprising reflection on our relationship with AI, first came And we thought, a work by the multidisciplinary artist Roberto Fassone; then Metabolo, an interactive performance by Valerie Tameu, and finally Nexus 23-24, the first dramaturgy written by an AI and a group of playwrights, with director Mariano Dammacco.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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And we thought, by Roberto Fassone<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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And we thought, by Roberto Fassone and AI LAI, produced after an artistic residency open to the public and a masterclass aimed at young artists, experiments with an unconventional use of technology to explore the potential of altered perceptions of reality.<\/p>

The work stems from the idea of investigating the phenomenon of hallucination, a scientific term used in natural language processing to define the production, by machines, of contents that do not correspond to reality, over-interpretations perceived as distortions that do not produce the effect for which the AI was programmed.<\/p>

These lysergic visions, produced by neural networks, do not seem far removed from those of human beings, the result of altered perceptions of real phenomena. To correct them is to steer a machine (or man) towards efficiency. Analysing these \u2018errors\u2019 means, on the other hand, activating a relationship with artificial intelligences that also allows us to better understand ourselves and our intelligence, to question ourselves on the future of collaboration between man and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Metabolo, by Valerie Tameu<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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From the 8 project works resulting from the masterclass on Body, Art and AI, Sineglossa selected Bolo<\/em>, by Valerie Tameu<\/strong>, to curate its production. Bolo<\/em> is a format that lies between immersive experience and imaginative practice, a research on the transformative process inherent in the digestive pathway, from an ecosystemic and interrelated perspective. I<\/p>

f an artificial intelligence could imagine the journey of a bolus, in its infinite possibilities of transformation and existence, what would it say? What would the term \u2018digestion\u2019 mean?<\/em><\/p>

AI, fed with a vast dataset of information, not neutral but culturally given, turns into a privileged observatory to shed light on the biases and patterns of thought it learns from our cultural context. References in this first study include Vandana Singh<\/strong>‘s planet-bodies and Octavia Butler<\/strong>‘s corporal communities, the questions posed by David Cronenberg<\/strong> in Crimes of the Future<\/em>, and Ursula Le Guin<\/strong>‘s subversive recipes.<\/p>

Thanks to the collaboration with creative technologist Michele Cremaschi<\/strong> and the research pool of the Human Technology Lab of the Free University of Bozen\/Bolzano<\/strong>, Bolo<\/em> turned into Metabolo<\/em>: a techno-spiritual ritual inspired by the ecofeminist positions of Hannah Landecker<\/strong> (\u2018Multiple Metabolisms. From capitalism to daily digestion<\/a>\u2019) and Nnedi Okorafor Laguna’s science fiction and Afrofuturist novel<\/a> (Zona42, 2017), and which uses machine learning models fed by data from underwater webcams for a post-anthropocentric dance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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