<ahref="exhibitions/unsettling-the-algorithm"><h1>Unsettling The Algorithm ↑</h1></a>
<p>Increasingly our lives are lived within digital systems and infrastructures. Our online clicks and browsing habits are a key component of technical systems designed and optimised for profit through surveillance and tracking. Whether online shopping or browsing dating apps , these algorithmic systems not only track and predict but determine what information we see and what realities we make from it. Platform boosted disinformation has the capacity to influence elections and instigate riots, while AI generated images spread propaganda and anti-science clickbait turns profits. As software syncs across networks and platforms, and the economics of platforms become intrinsic to everyday life, our behaviour online increasingly conforms to data profiles and model user behaviour.</p>
<p>Seeds of Resistance questions this growing encapsulation of life, and asks how we can reclaim our agency within the systems that seek to control and influence us. Highlighting not only the mechanisms of control but also the subversive strategies that push against them, the works in the exhibition demonstrate the unfolding politics of extractive platforms and networks, and the possibilities for resistance and dissent within them. Imposing acts of defiance with and through technology, the artists show how subversive coding practices can challenge state surveillance, how virtual environments can reclaim marginalised cultural memory, or how wasting the time of CEOs and executives can make material gains against climate collapse. Moving beyond resistance and acting with new forms of agency, Seeds of Resistance subverts, resists and defies — demonstrating how opportunities for transformation still exist.</p>
<p>Featuring works by: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Basil Al-Rawi, Caroline Campbell, Firas Shehadeh, Jennifer Gradecki and Derek Curry, Nora Al Badri, Patricia Domínguez and Suzanne Treister, Sebastian Schmieg, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, and TzuTung Lee and Winnie Soon.</p>
<p>Unsettling the Algorithm: Seeds of Resistance questions this growing encapsulation of life, and asks how we can reclaim our agency within the systems that seek to control and influence us. Highlighting not only the mechanisms of control but also the subversive strategies that push against them, the works in the exhibition demonstrate the unfolding politics of extractive platforms and networks, and the possibilities for resistance and dissent within them. Imposing acts of defiance with and through technology, the artists show how subversive coding practices can challenge state surveillance, how virtual environments can reclaim marginalised cultural memory, or how wasting the time of CEOs and executives can make material gains against climate collapse. Moving beyond resistance and acting with new forms of agency, Unsettling the Algorithm subverts, resists and defies — demonstrating how opportunities for transformation still exist.</p>
<p>Featuring works by: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Basil Al-Rawi, Robert Collins, Firas Shehadeh, Jennifer Gradecki and Derek Curry, Nora Al-Badri, Patricia Domínguez and Suzanne Treister, Sebastian Schmieg, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, and TzuTung Lee and Winnie Soon. Curated by Nora O’ Murchú and Aisling Murray.</p>
<p>Local Networks spotlights exciting Irish voices with emergent practices. This strand of the programme is dedicated to new work by some of Ireland’s most exciting artists experimenting with art and technology featuring new work from Pallas Projects artist Conan McIvor and new commissions from Aisling Phelan, Cailean Finn and Screen Service artists Aindriú Ó’Deasún and Mel Galley.</p>
<p>Local Artists Network spotlights exciting Irish voices with emergent practices. This strand of the programme is dedicated to new work by some of Ireland’s most exciting artists experimenting with art and technology featuring new work from Pallas Projects artist Conan McIvor and new commissions from Aisling Phelan, Cailean Finn and Screen Service artists Aindriú Ó’Deasún and Mel Galley.</p>
The 2024 edition of Beta will explore a range of themes relating to AI, Automated Systems, and the politics of resistance in an algorithmic age. Through a programme of exhibitions, workshops and talks, the festival will interrogate what kinds of powers reside in technology.
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The festival is co-founded by The Digital Hub and supported by Science Week with additional support for the 2024 programme from the French Embassy, Institut français, British Council, Smart Dublin, Screen Ireland, Arts Council Festival Investment Scheme and Goethe-Institut.
The festival is co-founded by The Digital Hub and supported by Science Week with additional support for the 2024 programme from the French Embassy, Institut français, British Council, Smart Dublin, Screen Ireland and Arts Council Festival Investment Scheme.
<pclass="list-info-text">Beta Festival will feature a variety of performances, workshops and discussions as part of this year's programme including collaborations with D.A.T.A., Base, Fire Station Artists Studios, Creative Futures Academy and Creative Sparks Fab Lab.</p>
<pclass="list-info-text">Beta Festival will feature a variety of performances, workshops and discussions as part of this year's programme including a number of events with our festival research partner ADAPT Research Centre and collaborations with D.A.T.A., Base, Fire Station Artists Studios, Creative Futures Academy and Creative Sparks Fab Lab.</p>
<pclass="list-info-text">We will also present Noire (France) in association with the French Embassy and Institut français, the Cannes award-winning immersive experience directed by Stéphane Foenkinos and Pierre-Alain Giraud, based on the work by Tania de Montaigne, produced by Novaya in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, co-produced with Flash Forward Entertainment.</p>
