Rashed Haq
United States
Where do you locate yourself in relation to the systems you work with?
I position myself inside the systems rather than outside them – as a participant, interlocutor, and critic. I work with AI and photographic systems closely enough to understand their affordances, biases, and failures, while maintaining enough distance to question their claims to truth, objectivity, and authority. My position is one of proximity with friction.
Where are you heading, and what is pulling you there?
I am moving toward deeper interrogations of plausibility, authorship, and historical construction, including how systems not only generate images, but shape belief. I am pulled by the urgency of disinformation, by the quiet power of images that feel true, and by the ethical responsibility of artists working with tools that increasingly mediate collective memory.
How would you describe the space your practice is currently unfolding in?
My practice unfolds in a hybrid space between photography, computation, and critical inquiry, where images are simultaneously evidentiary and speculative. It is a space shaped by institutional histories of photography and emerging AI infrastructures, one that I aim to subtly deform by making its assumptions visible and its certainties unstable.
