Decentring Ethics: AI Art as Method

Join us for the launch of the edited collection Decentring Ethics: AI Art as Method, published by Open Humanities Press.

The book advances a decentred approach to ethics. It draws on non-Western, ecocritical and feminist worldviews, and acknowledges the more-than-human as an agent with the capacity to act. We position AI art as ‘method’ – a process of working with, or in response to, the contemporary computational era. AI art as method frames ethics as situated, embodied and improvisational, whereby artists work with emergent ethical questions while challenging the more conservative frameworks of the cultural institutions they operate within.

It includes contributions by: Dani Admiss; Aarati Akkapeddi; Nora Al-Badri; Vanessa Bartlett; Gabby Bush; Sean Cubitt; Xanthe Dobbie; Solange Glasser, Ben Loveridge, Margaret Osborne, Lucy Sparrow, and Ryan Kelly; Libby Heaney; Beverley Hood; Helen Knowles; Jasmin Pfefferkorn; Off Site Project; Iyad Rahwan; Kamya Ramachandran; Tyne Daile Sumner, Emilie K. Sunde; and Amanda Wasielewski.

This event is hosted by the book's editors, Emilie K. Sunde, Jasmin Pfefferkorn, and Vanessa Bartlett.

We are also thrilled to announce that we will have artist talks by Helen Knowles, Nora Al-Badri, and Xanthe Dobbie, alongside a screening of Nora Al-Badri's video art work 'The Post Truth Museum'.

Please select whether you will be joining online or in-person from the two ticket options when you register. For in-person attendees, the event starts at 6pm sharp, and drinks will be served from 7.15-8.00pm, after the artist talks. For online attendees, the event will run from 6.00pm-7.15pm AEST.

Image (top): Xanthe Dobbie, Cloud Copy, 2020, part of Don’t Be Evil, UQ Art Museum, 2021. Courtesy of the artist. Photo Louis Lim

With thanks to:

Little Hansen Public Humanities grant

Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics

Open Humanities Press

Science Gallery Melbourne

CODED AESTHETICS