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  1. After the Absent Museum in #Wiels, and 16th #CuencaBiennale (#Ecuador), the collective work of #UniversalEmbassy - a platform for and by undocumented people based in the former embassy of #Somalia in #Brussels between 2000-2005, is once again being showed, this time at the heart of the 60th #VeniceBiennale, where the #Disobedience archive (a militant video archive) is being cleverly deployed at the Arsenale. Don't miss the video by #HitoSteyerl, who visited us in 2001 and produced this work appropriately titled : Universal Embassy. #MohamedBenzaouia, one of the spokespersons at the time, has aged like the rest of us, but his analysis of #FortressEurope has remained unchanged to this day. His words back then were alerting. With the militarisation of #border surveillance, the situation has worsened beyond imagination.
    'Papiers' for all undocumented. (from #VincentMeessen and 2 pictures by #MarceloExposito)

  2. #HitoSteyerl ist für mich eh eine der klügsten Künstler*innen, die sich intensiv mit den Bedingungen auseinandersetzen, in & aus denen heraus #Kunst stattfindet. Sie hat ihr Kunstwerk von der #documenta15 wegen deren Nicht-Umgang mit antisemitischen Bildern zurückgezogen. Jetzt ist die nächste #documenta in der Bredouille, bevor es überhaupt ein*e Kurator*in gibt. Hier spricht sie darüber, woran das auch quasi systematisch liegt. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-

  3. #HitoSteyerl - Mean #images #ai
    "#SenseTime is an #ArtificialIntelligence firm that, until April 2019, provided surveillance software to #Chinese authorities that was used to monitor and track #Uighurs; it had been flagged numerous times as having potential links to human-rights violations. It seems the combination of my name and face was not only used to optimize #MachineVision for #RacialClassification, but that this optimization was swiftly put into practice to identify and track members of an ethnic minority in #China. The fact of my existence on the internet was enough to turn my face into a tool of literal #discrimination wielded by an actually existing digital autocracy. [...] We interviewed [...] S., a student who did an internship in an ai start-up that offered personalized luxury travel recommendations to the better-off. His company’s communication strategy emphasized automation, with a recommender system allegedly based on users’ preferences extracted from social media. But behind the scenes, it outsourced all its processes to micro-providers in #Madagascar. It did no #MachineLearning"
    newleftreview.org/issues/ii140