Cyanne van den Houten and Ymer Marinus are part of Telemagic, an artist collective critiquing the societal impact of AI through techno-magical interactive installations. By hacking, reclaiming, chaining and ethical investigating methods, Telemagic invites you to reflect on the creative potential and implications of working with algorithms.

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Model Collapse is an immersive exhibition that explores the hidden landscapes behind generative AI. The exhibition explores AI’s entanglement with capital, labor, and ecological extraction through interactive cyber sculptures and cyberspace. These sculptures challenge dominant narratives by surfacing stories of mystification, gender bias, non-Western algorithmic practices, and environmental cost. One of the sculptures named seeding_venus explores AI’s biased labelling of a female body such as the “Venus of Willendorf”. The sculpture displays a mix of labels given by the AI to the body, as well as the artist’s labels for the body, creating a juxtaposition of gazes towards the same body.

Seeding_venus from Model Collapse is traveling to Osaka, Japan as part of Noorderlicht’s showcase Re-thinking Innovation in the Dutch pavilion. Works by Anouk Kruithof (NL) and Špela Petrič (SLO) are also part of Noorderlicht’s showcase. This year's World Expo in Japan is dedicated to Common Ground: creating a new dawn together - an invitation to rethink connectedness, progress and shared future.

Model Collapse is an exhibition by Cyanne van den Houten and Ymer Marinus. Cyanne followed a development program in Tetem's Nexus program in process of developing this exhibition. These cyber sculptures have also been made possible in part by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the KF Hein Fund.

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