I’m an Archive
Talk held in 2023 and 2024 as part of a talk series co-arranged by the art institution Heirloom and The Association of Visual Artists.
‘I’m an archive’ explores how digital materiality is reshaping artistic practices, with a focus on the role of AI in transforming the creation process through algorithmic tools and generative techniques. It then examines the Internet as an archive, considering how vast online repositories of data, often scraped by AI, serve as both a challenge and resource for artists, influencing their work and career trajectories. Finally, the talk delves into digital ephemerality, exploring the transient nature of digital art and how AI, through data scraping and analysis, interacts with this fleeting environment, raising questions about the permanence and preservation of works in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.