Launch of ARTeCHÓ

talk with Julia Kassyk, Lorenzo Gerbi, Ianis Dobrev, Michele Bazzoli and Paula Nishijima

In recent years, there has been a surge in the use of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs),
for instance, to economically exploit the digital art market. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a tool for facilitating everyday tasks and providing all kinds of services.

The ARTeCHÓ publication brings together artists and researchers who have delved deeply into the complexities and nuances of AI and decentralized technologies, as well as the new realities they present. The book invites the reader to ground oneself where the hope of a more sustainable future brought by decentralization and the colonial and extractive legacies of technological progress collide. Decentralization implies a move away from centralized control to a web of smaller control centres,
each contributing to a larger whole. But do we instantly speak about decentralized power when speaking about decentralized technology? Can AI not simply be trained but also educated? And can its further development be reconciled with the limited capacity of global power grids?

The essays and conversations contained in this book suggest ideas and raise questions that could serve as a guide for the development of a new economic thinking that looks beyond the anthropocentric and extractive logic of the modern capitalist economy or that could expand the digital space for an autonomous knowledge commons.

The launch of the book will be accompanied by a conversation featuring co-editors Julia Kassyk and Lorenzo Gerbi, as well as participating artists and contributors Ianis Dobrev, Michele Bazzoli (to be confirmed), and Paula Nishijima.