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Diggermode: A Film From 'Australia'

Where
UTS Gallery
UTS Gallery
Level 4, 702 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007
When

Wednesday 20 September 2023 from 3pm to 4:30pm

Diggermode questions the social and environmental ethics of technology in constructing, storing and sharing our images, whether in surveillance databases, museum archives or online.

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Joel Sherwood Spring has created landscapes in the style of acclaimed Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira being torn apart by mining machinery, and has trained another AI to answer questions like ‘Who’s your Mob? ’Presumably, anyone could do this – but should anyone be able to appropriate Indigenous art from the internet? How do we protect our knowledge in digital spaces? Does sand used to make silicon microchips contain memories of Country?

Sherwood Spring’s work confronts the viewer with uncomfortable and overlooked aspects of our hyper-networked age, grounding the possibilities of ‘the cloud’ and AI in the broader context of ongoing colonisation. Diggermode considers the environmental damage caused by new technology and data storage, and the ways in which Indigenous peoples’ lands and ways of being are profoundly impacted by capitalism’s extractive processes. A screening of Diggermode will be followed by an artist talk by Joel Sherwood Spring.

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