Art that Moves Session 1

Art that Moves explores the increased impact in conditions of global migration and interdependence; how this continually reshapes art history and criticism, art practices and their dissemination. Exploring approaches to the processes of making artworks, films and exhibitions through a translocational, intersectional lens, we investigate the more complex framing of identities and community-forming that are hard to pin down. ‘People who move,’ whether these are ‘migrants’, mobile citizens, or those with plural cultural positionings, offer the opportunity to question the fixity of art institutional systems of patronage on which we depend.
Art that Moves looks for alternatives, finding them in the practices of the contributors themselves, inviting artist-led networks in curating, artists and other creative disciplines to join our forum.
Session 1, Day 1, 21st April
Central Saint Martins, UAL, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA
Room E002
Image caption: Left, Isaac Leung, Right, Lucía King
Two talks/presentations by Hong Kong curator, Isaac Leung with Lucía King London-based artist, and curator of Art that Moves discuss the impact of mobility & migration in cross-regional curating practices, AI and strategies of art production. Moderator, Alex Schady, Director of Art Programme, CSM.
Lucía King is an artist, filmmaker and Director of VisionMix, a cross-regional network of cultural stakeholders founded in 2014 with 40 associate partners spanning four continents. Her professional relocations between Asia and Europe have led her to question the wider politics of inter-regional collaboration as an integral part of her practice, developing new theoretical models and imagined futures of art production and exhibition. Her presentation will discuss how Art that Moves has been developed as a project, the research involved and conversations with its participants as its main Curator. She will also discuss an earlier project, “Delve” exhibition, on the fantastic of Space and Place, at Josep Renau gallery, Spain (2024).
Isaac Leung presents: Migrating Images: Rethinking Artistic Production through AI and Distributed Creativity AI has recently had profound implications for artistic practice. Considering AI as a crucial agent in the creative process, Leung examines how artistic production emerges within complex networks. Within AI systems, datasets become vast actor-networks: millions of images, models, and computational infrastructures. Images migrate across networks of data, algorithms, and human interpretation, producing a continuous movement of cultural material. Within AI art, agency is multifaceted. Artists influence prompts, algorithms shape outputs, datasets affect aesthetic possibilities, and platforms mediate the circulation of images. Agency is therefore constantly shifting. This allows ‘migration’ to be understood beyond the physical movement of people across borders, instead being seen as the process of negotiating new networks of relations.

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