2022/06/10

Nora Al-Badri Uses AI to Defy Museum Gatekeeping and Colonial Thinking

● 10/06/2022
“Of the five museums Al-Badri contacted to secure permission for the use of images of Babylonian artifacts, only two responded. This virtual gatekeeping reveals the continuum of colonial thinking still active within the contemporary museum context.”
– Critic Erëmirë Krasniqi, on why Nora Al-Badri’s video series Babylonian Vision (2020), currently on view at Galeria 17, Pristina (XK), features AI hallucinations of ancient artifacts (instead of real ones)
Artforum
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