Carnival of Algorithmic Culture

The Carnival of Algorithmic Culture will bring together researchers, artists, activists, technologists, and community members for two days of workshops, talks, exhibitions, and interactive activities in Toronto to explore the impacts of artificial intelligence on the culture we create and the cultural products to which we have access.

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We need a holiday to justify the offal in our bowl and so we invented one. The charivari and its long legs and extra fingers have been invited to take a seat in the quire. This is not a battle to be won or lost, but a site of reversal where the possibility of change might be celebrated. The vulgar and the erudite shall share their fetid breath and for two days we will uncrown our algorithmic masters.

We spend most of the year inside a monstrous marvel, a pulsating mass of gears, wires, and the gnashing teeth of an insatiable hunger, devouring all in our path, belching forth a rancid fog of margins and metrics. It’s all tremendous fun, but a rest, at times, is deserved.

Carnival is inversion and mixture. We happily tithe the counting machines and we demand in return our moments of overflow and excess. The illegible, the joyous, the grotesque, and the uncertain organize our efforts. We bear no malice but rather advocate mirth. We celebrate the body and its needs, the earth and its gifts, and our ancestors and the stories that they give us. We do not hate the artificially intelligent but we would be remiss in not finding the humour in it.

Presented by UKAI Projects with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Body Shop Studios

302 Geary Avenue,

Toronto, ON M6H 2C5

Artscape Daniels Launchpad

130 Queens Quay East

4th Floor, East Tower

Suite #423

Toronto, ON M5A 0P6

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

bodyshop studios, 302 Geary Avenue, Toronto, Canada