Carnegie Museum of Art: Mirror With A Memory Podcast
Carnegie Museum of Art
Mirror with a Memory Podcast
Amidst the height of the pandemic, we collaborated with the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hillman Photography Initiative to create a new podcast series, Mirror with a Memory, aimed at the intersection of photography, surveillance, and artificial intelligence and the work that artists are doing to explore that space—from biometrics and racial bias to the ways that we perceive the environment and international borders. Hosted by Martine Syms, the six-episode series features leading artists and thinkers in dialogue accompanied by excerpts from important artworks, unpacking the ways in which these powerful forces and technologies impact everyone.
Podcast video teaser (above) - Audio episode 1 - 6 (below)
Episode One: Biometrics - In the first episode of Mirror with a Memory, artist Zach Blas and filmmaker and scholar Manthia Diawara will discuss what it means to leave it to machines to verify our identities.
Written by Rachel Wolff. Edited by Jonathan Sanden. Original Music by Noah Therrien.
Episode Two: (In)Visibility - Episode Two explores the benefits and disadvantages of going unseen by surveillance technologies by examining notions of visibility and invisibility in the context of AI imaging systems with author and professor Simone Browne, artist Sondra Perry, and artist and academic Mimi Onuoha.
Written by Rachel Wolff. Edited by Jonathan Sanden. Original Music by Noah Therrien.
Episode Three: Evidence - In Episode Three, we speak with artists Lynn Hershman Leeson and American Artist to consider how AI can complicate our relationship to pictures we would otherwise think of as visual “proof.”
Written by Rachel Wolff. Edited by Jonathan Sanden. Original Music by Noah Therrien.
Episode Four: Storytelling - In Episode Four, artists Stephanie Dinkins and Stan Douglas discuss how they use the language of photography, surveillance, and AI to narrate different pasts and imagine different futures.
Written by Rachel Wolff. Edited by Jonathan Sanden. Original Music by Noah Therrien.
Episode Five: Land - Episode Five zooms out and up with leading AI researcher Kate Crawford, technology writer Arthur Holland Michel, and photographer Richard Misrach to look at how cameras are used to divide, extract, survey, and surveil landscapes.
Written by Rachel Wolff. Edited by Jonathan Sanden. Original Music by Noah Therrien.
Episode Six: Power - In the final episode of Mirror with a Memory, Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman explains how artists, activists, and researchers can use the tools of photography, surveillance, and AI to hold corporations, governments, and other institutions accountable.
Written by Rachel Wolff. Edited by Jonathan Sanden. Original Music by Noah Therrien.