In conjunction with the exhibition Bugs & Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography at the Hasselblad Center, we are organizing two film screenings, featuring films that explore and relate to the exhibition’s central themes and perspectives.

This screening focuses on Machine Vision and will feature two films: Dr. Frida with photographer and artist Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø, and What do you see, YOLO9000? by the artist collective Taller Estampa.

After the screening, Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø will participate in a brief conversation about her film together with Louise Wolthers and Nina Mangalanayagam, the curators of the exhibition.

The screening is free of charge, and we will serve sandwiches and coffee (limited availability). The films and event will be in English.

ABOUT THE FILMS

Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø
Dr. Frida (16 min) 

Dr. Frida is A autobiographical portrait through medical science composed of material taken from 12 years of diagnostic scans of the artist and video recordings from the hospital. The self-portrait through medical science contains PET-CT, CT, MR, and MRI scans of Frida Lisa Cartsensen Jersø. These scans are used by medical science primarily to observe the metabolic or biochemical function of tissues, bones, displaying bones, muscles, fat, organs, and blood vessels. The imaging procedure involves a combination of X-rays and computer technology to produce detailed images of the inside of the body.

The video reveals and preserves everything from the artist’s brain to organs, metal, and screws, immortalizing her, and providing a visual documentation of the sick body. The video features a soundscape of recordings from the hospital, along with ambient and noise.

Taller Estampa
What do you see , YOLO9000? (14 min)

YOLO9000 is an object recognition neural network trained on a dataset of 9,418 words and millions of images. It is one of the many artificial vision tools being developed, designed for automatic image annotation.

What do you see, YOLO9000? is a heterodox audiovisual investigation of its mechanisms, its possibilities and its world. Based on the project The Bad Pupil. Critical pedagogy for artificial intelligences (Estampa, 2017-2018).

Estampa is an artistic collective of programmers, filmmakers and researchers based in Barcelona. Their practice is based on a critical and archaeological approach to audiovisual and digital technologies, with a particular focus on archival and experimental media. Since 2017, one of their main areas of research has been the exploration of the uses and ideologies of artificial intelligence.

Bild: Nora Lorek