Exhibition - CODE 2024: Deep Nudes and Digital Oblivion

The exhibition CODE 2024: Deep Nudes and Digital Oblivion takes a deep dive into today’s most urgent digital challenges: from the use of artificial intelligence in image creation and the right to be forgotten to the opacity of machine learning and the tension between personal identity and public perception. From 30 August to 13 October the exhibition presents the results of CODE 2024 a co-creation project involving artists designers researchers activists and tech industry workers who collaborated in groups to produce art projects.

Developments in artificial intelligence technologies and their impact on our digital rights have been among the core issues for CODE 2024 and the participants. We see these concerns reflected in the art projects produced by the groups. 

What life choices can we imagine leaving to artificial intelligence in the future? Can we trust the tech industry to apply values that are important to us when building artificial intelligence technologies? Should AI respond to all the needs and desires of all its users – even when other people believe these needs and desires are questionable or offensive? Who gets to decide what is acceptable? And what role do we want our governments to play in this process? How do we find a balance that avoids moral policing but prevents harmful biases going on the rampage? 

Once information has been released on the internet and made public it is difficult – impossible even – to retract or correct it. This problem will become even more complex with artificial intelligence producing more and more information. We have a right to be forgotten so we can ask specific companies or authorities to delete our personal information but does that mean our data has disappeared entirely? 

The complex questions that CODE has been raising since it started in 2021 are only becoming more complex now that AI is an omnipresent part of our daily reality. Do we control our own digital existence? How can we reclaim our digital agency?

https://impakt.nl/events/2024/exhibition/code-2024/

Host or Publisher Stichting IMPAKT