AI Art for Climate Change

Where Do I Come From Where Do I Go
Artists: Malavika PC (India), Papia Chakraborty (India) and Asli Dinc (Germany)
Supporting Artists: Pritha Kundu (India)
Three artists in three different geographies bared themselves raw, confronting their daily consumption patterns by visually capturing their waste to build a dataset. The installation used the dataset to create a digital waterfall of refuse, which as audiences paused to observe it turned to fresh water, serving as a symbolic stance to comprehend resetting the clock. Supported by a chart of the data set, with every item of trash used, abused, and discarded by the artists, a zine discussing garbage politics with AI chatbots, and a performance video this piece nuanced the fast and dirty flow of life, time, and the climate crisis hidden amidst everyday infrastructures
Poetics of Garbage
Artists: Aashna Arora (India), Bruce Gilchrist (UK), Chaitali Kulkarni (India) and Thaniya Kanaka Mahalakshmi (India)
Reflexively produced a commentary on the relationship between humans and their garbage. In this performative piece inspired by
ideas of rituals, the discarded is given cultural agency and transformed into
an opportunity, an untapped resource waiting to be harnessed. The performer
uses plastic waste as a garment wandering the streets of New Delhi, to create
a profound video work an audio rendering of AI generated poetry. The piece also explores AI’s potential to misclassify as a light overlay where the video, subjected through classification software depicts visually the inability of AI
in its current state to be fully effective.