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In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber discusses digital doubles, identity and a new kind of technological theater with Finnish media artist Hanna Haaslahti. Her most recent work, Ancestors focuses on exploring the narrative possibilities of digital doubles. In an immersive room, AI-generated versions of the visitors begin to reproduce with one another. The work raises questions about identity, individualism, and kinship in the future. This episode of Art Is Not a Thing is produced by Ars Electronica and developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1. Host: Hannah Balber Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea, Christopher Sonnleitner, Marlene Grinner ...
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The time when we could first see the artificial faces created by AI and there was a big sort of I would say panic reaction about it like what can we expect now from AI when it can create truly photorealistically realistic human beings who are no ones. Welcome to Art is Nothing, the podcast series about art as a practice of critical and green
knowledge production and world building. My name is Dana Karabella, part-time host and producer of the podcast. For the new season of Art is Nothing, we've partnered with Radio Er Eins, one of Austria's leading cultural voices, to bring you the next six episodes.
Over the next months, my colleague and radio journalist, Hannah Balber, will discuss with artists and researchers whose work questions and reimagines our practices in and of the world. In today's episode, Hannah discusses digital doubles, identity, and a new kind of technological theater with Finnish media artist Hannah Slatty. Her most recent work, Ancestors, focuses on
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