As part of Corin Sworn’s investigative performance series, ‘Moving in Relation’, the artist has selected two recent publications that have informed her ongoing research into human interrelationships with technology.
‘The Atlas of Anomalous AI’ edited by Ben Vickers and K Allado-McDowell and Louise Amoore, ‘Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others’.
Corin Sworn has selected Ignota Books’ ‘The Atlas of Anomalous AI’ (2020) edited by Ben Vickers and and K Allado-McDowell and Louise Amoore, ‘Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others’ (2020).
“These books situate the collection and interpretation of digital data amid a history of devices built to grapple with mapping futurity and the unknown. ‘The Atlas of Anomalous AI’ is a beautiful compendium of objects and plans for ordering and predicting, drawn from across world history and into the present day. The collection circles and displaces a Western power, seeking to determine what is and is not admissible in cosmologies of recognition and futurity.
Louise Amoore considers, from various angles, the inherent unknowability and experimental nature of algorithmic devices. ‘Cloud Ethics’ draws from theorists within the social sciences to flag how power deploys and trims this open-ended seeking to harness and determine its own orders of the possible. Here, ethics lies in how the credible is determined as we reach into the imaginary.”
Corin Sworn
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In conjunction with our projects, exhibitions and events, Room for Reading offers artists we work with an opportunity to contribute to The Common Guild library and share the books and resources that have influenced their artistic practice.
Every artist’s selection is added to The Common Guild’s expansive reference library of artist books, catalogues, and cultural and critical theory.
