Sep. 24 – Feb. 25.2024 THE TAXONOMY OF POWER GISELLE BEIGUELMAN is recognized for inventively investigating the intersection of art, technology, and society through reflections on contemporary issues that permeate her works. Delving into the realms of images and botany, the artist seeks the re-signification and redefinition of the essence of these visual elements and […]
Apr. 7 – Oct. 08 2023. Museo Sartorio (Trieste) Botannica Tirannica Botannica Tirannica, è una mostra che spazia tra diversi media per indagare il rapporto tra la scienza egemonica, la botanica classica e l’immaginario colonialista storicamente presente nelle forme di dominio della natura. Utilizzando l’intelligenza artificiale per incrociare e abbinare varie specie con nomi dispregiativi, […]
Botannica Tirannica was one of the featured artworks of the 3rd Karachi Biennale, by invitation of Faisal Anwar, curator of this venue. Due to Dengue epidemia restrictions, we could not use plants inside the room. This challenged us to occupy the space in a different way, concentrating on the discussion about Artificial Intelligence dependence on […]
Wandering is the result of a combination of all the species of plants named collectively as “Wandering Jew” in various languages. The legend of the Wandering Jew, a character of the narrative that has been part of the oral tradition of Passion Week since the 8th century, associates Jews with the martyrdom of Jesus Christ […]
This series of generative videos was produced with Artificial Intelligence based on datasets of plants with offensive and prejudiced names for women, Blacks, Jews, indigenous people, Roma, Sinti and Caló (“gypsies”). Flora Rebellis is based on a technique conceived by the English scientist Francis Galton (1822- 1911), creator of eugenics, to photographically synthesize the generic […]
This series of images was created using Artificial Intelligence, by crossing plant species with offensive common and/or scientific names that express different types of prejudice associated with body parts and cultural traits. The nomenclature of the species of the series Flora Mutandis was generated algorithmically, based on a shuffling of the original names of the […]
