Selena Savić

Re-generative Past in AI

My research into the technical, socio-political, and environmental aspects of artificial intelligence takes stock of materialist concerns for ways in which technology automates performance and creativity, locating a history of measurement in stories of data collection. Rejecting ‘data idealism,’ I study a proto-history of AI that challenges conventional causalities between technology and society and re-centres precedents in the way data becomes material in AI, to trace their other, potential histories.

Bio

Selena Savić is an artist, architect, and assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. Her work explores critical and creative approaches to data and its critique at the intersection of informational processes and postcolonial technocracy. She researches, teaches, and writes about digital archives, computational modelling, feminist materialism, and posthuman networks in the context of art, design, and architecture.