WE ARE DATA
The project outlines the complexities of dealing with data and investigates major questions divided over a set of subthemes: Data collection, Access to Data, Re-using and archiving data, Language and Data and the Artistic use of Data.
Could we use Artificial Intelligence to beat it?
AI as a tool could be used to beat itself through using it to generate veil images (There is a failure probability) that may be used as a source of inspiration to design pieces of the veil that can bypass facial recognition surveillance cameras. The project uses a dataset of veil images and training them to create generative ones.
Ahmed Aiuby’s project Could we use Artificial Intelligence to beat it? uses a dataset of veil images and training them to create generative ones.
What happened in the last year?!
What happened in the last year?! is a window into a work in progress, the product of a year of contemplation, planning, progress and retreat. The installation features different media such as recorded clips, sketches and diagrams. Whether the media was complete or not, the artist used them in a discussion about a fundamental interest in the relationship of abstract mathematics to visual art. The presented materials look at significant events in human history and put them into dialogue with perceptions and ideas about teaching and learning in art in Egypt.
Fantasy vs Reality
Fantasy vs Reality is an archive and a study that preserves a time frame from the beginning of Covid19 pandemic that highlights the contrast between memes and news by investigating, unveiling the relations, patterns, and different angles of the contemporary behaviour, beliefs, traditions, culture daily life struggles and adaptations.
Sirat Qasr Al Nil – The Path of Qasr Al Nil
Society is philosophically affirming humans’ worthlessness by creating artificial barriers that shape human life. A force dissonance arises between individuals and social dynamics powers, creating a tension of deep-rooted beliefs. Some Individuals deviate by deciding to create their path and defying challenges, while others adapt and remain in the society’s sphere and repetitive patterns.Sirat is an attempt to build an environment that creates tension for the audience driving them to a predictable and traceable path.
Dust and Glitter
Dust and Glitter is a display of the findings of one year of ongoing research. The artist investigated the concept of the chaos of marginalised things, i.e. dirt and its counterpart of nice things: glitter and their history and origin. In an attempt to study order in chaos in the processes of demolition and reconstruction, and this chaos’ impact on the society’s collective memory, the artist collected samples of dirt different heritage sites in Cairo and Alexandria. She also recorded surrounding sounds for the memory of the place to mix artificial and natural sounds in an attempt to present possibilities for drawing the shape of the site.
Can you write that sound?
This is an experiential, interactive sound installation that aims to look at the gap between sound expressions that are heard but not written in letterforms. This concept is called Onomatopoeia, which is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
Adding the technology variable as a lens to look in the future of those sound expressions and if humans can manipulate the limitations and ability of machines to imitate the sound that is produced by humans in the first place. Taking the zaghruta or the lululation as a case study to emphasise the gap between analogue vs digital sounds.
