Judy Radul

Framing With Waves

11 December 2023

At the same time as AI is bringing “intelligence” into question, it seems that across a wide range of knowledges and ways of knowing (epistemologies)
we are trying to shift some of our long held and culturally determined beliefs and values about what exists, what is important, what is interrelated, and  how thought and action can be limiting or unlimited. As an artist “working with technology” —and trying to imagine what that means and does not mean,  acts and does not act—I am moving through this tangled time space with my tools and techniques and cognitive and non cognitive apparatus’.  Its a wild ride through liquid waves and dry streams. 

Required Reading:

Ch. 3 of Art and Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui. 

We will particularly look at sections, 

17 THE STATUS OF MACHINE INTELLIGENCE TODAY

19 THE INCOMPUTABLE AND THE INCALCULABLE

20 INTELLIGENCE, REASON, AND INTUITION

22 ART AS EPISTEMIC REVOLUTION 

Judy Radul’s video installations often feature technical systems, including an original computer-controlled motion choreography and playback system for live and pre-recorded video. Recent exhibitions include: Dazibao, Montreal, 2023; Gwangju Biennale, 2021; Albertinum Museum, Dresden, 2021; Kunstinstitute Melly, Rotterdam, 2017. Her large-scale media installation World Rehearsal Court (2009) has been shown in Vancouver, Vienna, Seoul, Oslo and Moscow. She has published two books with Sternberg Press Berlin: A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law and Aesthetics, 2011 co-edited with Marit Paasche, and This Is Television, 2018. Radul received a B.A in Fine and Performing Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 1991 and Master of Visual and Media Arts, Bard College, New York, 2000. She is Professor of Visual Art at SFU School for Contemporary Arts. She lives in Berlin and Vancouver (unceded Tsleil-Waututh, Skwxwú7mesh and Musqueam lands) and is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver. https://cargocollective.com/judyradul