Booksmart Fair, Decentering Ethics: AI Art as Method
book launch & chapter published
Hi Everyone,
It’s been a really busy couple of months for many reasons. I’m writing rather quickly today to mention that I will be tabling at the Booksmart fair (part of the larger Art on Paper fair) all this weekend. Additionally, I will be having a conversation with Rebecca Mzengi Corey on Sunday from 3-4pm as part of a book launch for a softcover edition of In the Belly of the Beast.
BOOK LAUNCH: In the Belly of the Beast by Aarati Akkapeddi
Sunday, September 7th | 3 – 4pmAarati Akkapeddi is a Brooklyn-based artist, coder, and educator who uses machine learning and printmaking to create work about memory and history.
In conversation with CBA’s Deputy Director Rebecca Mzengi Corey, Akkapeddi will speak about In The Belly of the Beast, their project inspired by Tipu’s Tiger, an 18th-century automaton. The work includes an interactive website where visitors can explore a 3D scan of the tiger’s interior. Inside, they’ll discover videos of colonial monuments and can symbolically “feed the tiger,” a gesture that engages with the legacy of colonialism and the repatriation of cultural artifacts.
You can get tickets to the fair here: https://ny.thepaperfair.com/visit/#tickets. As an exhibiting artist, I have some free passes available in case you would like to attend but cannot afford a ticket. Please write to me directly and I can send you a free pass first come first serve.
In other news, I have a chapter about Handmade Datasets published in Decentering Ethics: AI Art as Method edited by Vanessa Bartlett, Jasmin Pfefferkorn, and Emilie K.Sunde (Open Humanities Press). It’s free to download here.
Hope you all are having a good start to September. I’m definitely ready for Autumn.
In gratitude,
Aarati