silent green presents a screening of Unlearning to See, with work by Kevin Abosch, Crosslucid, Boris Eldagsen, Flynn by Malpractice, Malpractice, and Jess Tucker, followed by the panel Who Shapes Culture in the Age of Generative AI? On Models, Power, and Myths, with Mat Dryhurst, Anan Fries, Sarah Friend, Jess Tucker, and statements by Simon Denny, curated and moderated by Anika Meier.
The screening poses a question at the center of the program: who creates images when models create images? Images now emerge from prompts and datasets, trained and generated through algorithmic systems that also moderate and circulate them. The program includes generative film and deepfakes alongside an AI-generated opera.
Flynn by Malpractice, credited as the world's first non-human art student, is enrolled at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The project comes from the artist collective Malpractice, Chiara Kristler and Marcin Ratajczyk, working with changing AI counterparts.
"We think about protocols or models as artistic media," said Mat Dryhurst, one of the panel's speakers, in a separate interview with the panel's curator Anika Meier. "How would you design a data permission system or a protocol that shapes the media or interactions produced downstream? That's the opportunity."
The panel takes up a related question from a discursive angle. Platforms and models increasingly determine how images circulate and get perceived, and five international voices consider what that shift means for artistic and theoretical practice.
