Laurie Andersson and history reimagined > 03/09/23

Laurie Andersson and history reimagined

From the Laurie Andersson exhibition at Moderna museet, Stockholm. History reimagined through Midjourney.

One part of the Laurie Andersson exhibition at Moderna museet in Stockholm is about her ancestry, her grandfather who emigrated from Sweden to the US at the turn of the last century, reimagined through a series of photos from the past in the AI software Midjourney. In other words, the photo above is not a real but a generated one. The moustache of the guy to the left looks strange. Was it left so to draw attention to its being a fake photo?

The photo raises some questions in our times of AI. What happens when we can reimagine the past in whatever way we want? In what way does it change history? And our perception of history? On the other, literature, art, film all tell a narrative of their own. Yet, we expect photos to be documentary.

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Laurie Andersson on language > 03/09/23

Laurie Andersson on language

Laurie Andersson and language at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.

Laurie Andersson at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm gave me some thoughts about the question of language, or rather, it made me recognise similar thoughts of mine about language. The broken, fragmented yet ever-present prison-house of language.

And those of you who have been around this site know that language is one of my concerns.

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Digital Monet > 22/08/23

Digital Monet

From the digital and immersive Monet exhibition at Artipelag, Stockholm.

Visited the immersive and digital exhibition of Monet’s work at Artipelag. I think he would have loved it as boundaries are dissolved but most visitors took the position of the beholder. So did I at first, until I realised that I had to walk around in the huge room. That’s when the exhibition turned into an immersive and embodied experience.

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