Big generative AI - Implications for creativity, art, and artists

Research seminar with Palle Dahlstedt, Professor in Interaction Design at Gothenburg University. In this lecture, Palle Dahlstedt will share a pragmatic, critical, and visionary view of what machine l

Date & Time: Wednesday, June 12 at 10:00-11:45 (CET)Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Palle Dahlstedt, Professor in In

Salad Hilowle

Salad Hilowle (born in 1986, Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Stockholm-based artist who traces historical narratives, excavates and ponders the impact of the African diaspora on history and how it permeates

Venue: Masthuggsterrassen 3, Göteborg A methods workshop, work-in-progress screening, and open discussion bringing together participants, media, and approaches from the three year artistic research proj. We will engage with group efforts to offer new visual approaches to hidden struggles within transport, data, and logistics industries—workers, stories, and vantage points that have been “ghosted” from dominant narratives. Through the concept of a collectively investigated counter-aesthetics we will examine how art practices embedded within or alongside labour organizing and social movements, seeing and sensing systems of power, production, and resistance. Beyond basic introductions of why we need different forms of public engagement with logistics, the conversation will connect sites and contexts from the Nordics to Southern Europe to the Middle East, asking for example how struggles against Amazon connect cross-border to struggles for Gaza.We welcome guests—a mix of workers, organizers, artists and ad hoc researchers—from near and far.Participants:• Michele Amaglio, artist (Bologna)• Bahaleen Collective (Aya Besio, Noura Salem, Elia El Khazen) (Jordan)• Peppe Dalesio, organizer, S.I.Cobas (Naples)• Benjamin Gerdes, artist and organizer, Ghost Platform (Stockholm)• Magda Malinowska, filmmaker, worker, and organizer, Amazon Workers International & OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Poznań)• Robert Ochshorn, software engineer and media researcher (Brussels)***The workshop is open to everyone. Artists, students, activists, researchers and logistics, data, and transportation workers are particularly invited to participate.Language: EnglishAfter the program, Skogen invites everyone to participate in a communal dinner. Skogen has no set ticket fee, but we take in donations for art, workshops, food.With the support of: Vetenskapsrådet, Nordisk Kultur Fond, and Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm.

How can artistic narration, based on subjective perspectives, develop the documentary film? The project will spread knowledge and reach new arenas where artistic research is usually not portrayed.

Exhibition of Tipping Point:Opening 1 June Galärparken, Djurgåren (close to Junibacken) at 5 pm (preview at 4:30 pm). Therafter daily 2-19 June, opens 11 am, last showing 3 pm every day.Seminar series3, 4, 9 and 14 June, see below.

Benjamin Gerdes

Benjamin Gerdes is an artist, writer, and organizer working in video, film, and related public formats, individually as well as collaboratively. He is interested in intersections of radical politics,

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, 4th floor, Holländargatan 13, 111 36 Stockholm  Listening Session And Drinks The Institute for Futures Studies hosts the premiere of a new 15-minute sound work. Regist

Exhibition of Tipping Point: Opening 1 June Galärparken, Djurgåren (close to Junibacken) at 5 pm (preview at 4:30 pm). Therafter daily 2-19 June, opens 11 am, last showing 3 pm every day.Seminar series 3, 4, 9 and 14 June, see below.  

Place: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmRegister hereInformality is on the rise. From remote labour and services-on-demand to food trucks and pop-up shops, its transformat