Library’s Other Intelligences
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 55431772
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Oodi Central Library, Helsinki, Finland
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This submission consists of a co-curated art exhibition, Library’s Other Intelligences (2019), and two accompanying peer-reviewed articles that theorize art, data culture, and infrastructure in the context of working with cultural institutions. The uniqueness of the exhibition stems from combining Parikka’s earlier individual scholarly work on media archaeology, urban infrastructures, and AI with contemporary media art methods. The curatorial practice involved commissioning work from Finnish artists for Helsinki’s newly opened central library, working collectively to engage with the material infrastructure of the site. The interdisciplinary curatorial focus interfaces art methods and media theory to re-situate the library as an ecology of infrastructures, as a large- scale distributed intelligence. It deposited, for example, non-human imaginaries in the Foreign Languages section (featuring an AI created Martian language based on 19th century texts by the medium Helene Smith). ‘Memory Machines’ an infrastructural performance project by Samir Bhowmik; ‘00100 Ensemble, Swarm Chorus’ by Tuomas A. Laitinen; and ‘nimiia ïzinibimi’ by Jenna Sutela interface with the library as a knowledge architecture by using contemporary technologies of machine learning, theories of extended intelligence, and art and media studies perspectives on infrastructures. While the work developed from Parikka’s prior theoretical work, and his AHRC funded project Internet of Cultural Things (2015-2016 as co-investigator) with the British Library, his curatorial approach was further developed during a two year MOBIUS fellowship (2017- 2019), in two open symposia on art, cities, libraries and AI at Publics art space (Helsinki), and a final one-day event at New York’s Metropolitan Library Council on contemporary art and civic practices with libraries. Overall, the work contributes to contemporary debates about archives, libraries and knowledge infrastructures; and argues that art practices produce new frameworks and methodologies to understand what the non-human aspects of institutions and architectures such as a library can look and sound like.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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