Abstract

Question uncritical ideologies relating to AI, immersion and corporate constructs such as the ‘metaverse’ Eleanor discusses Forensic AI, Brechtian Alienation and the spatial nature of Machine Learning as well as Deleuze’s construct of the virtual as potential. The talk evidences how arts-based approaches which pay great attention to the materiality of digital spaces and their entanglement with neo-liberalism (and other trajectories) can truly challenge orthodoxy without resorting to the cliched language and limited framings so often entangled with contemporary constructs of ‘innovation’ and ‘disruption’.