Still, Բաժակ Նայող  (One Who Looks at the Cup), Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Image provided by ReflectSpace

Reimagining Algorithms: Cultural Heritage in the Age of AI will be featured at ReflectSpace from Aug.t 16 – Nov. 2.

Reimagining Algorithms: Cultural Heritage in the Age of AI is an art-infused, researched-based and technologically adventurous exhibition that highlights how artists re-imagine and re-invent culture while also casting light on how the same technology is used for its destruction. Embedded in diverse cultural and historical narratives, the artists employ varied media and processes to rethink and recreate their culture through technology. In parallel, researchers and cultural workers delve into ways technology is employed to erase the art and culture of indigenous and colonized communities. The exhibit brings these two seemingly opposing polarities into proximity and questions their implications on our use of technology and AI (artificial intelligence) on cultural memory and identity. 

  The work of the featured artists extends to the PassageWay where the exhibition expands through the research and documentation done by Simon Maghakyan and the Caucasus Heritage Watch of current efforts to destroy cultural heritage in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabagh and the Gaza Strip. 

Collectively, the artists, researchers and cultural workers in Reimagining Algorithms weave a tapestry of work that re-creates culture with new technological imaginings while also recognizing how systems can harness its algorithmic violence. 

  Reimagining Algorithms: Cultural Heritage in the Age of AI is curated by Ara & Anahid Oshagan and Monica Hye Yeon Jun.

  Exhibiting artists will participate in a virtual talk on Thursday, Oct. 2 at 6 p.m.; more information can be found at ReflectSpace.org.

ReflectSpace/Glendale Central Library is located at 222 E. Harvard St. in Glendale.