ECHO // We Work Like Peasants While AI Is Painting and Writing Poetry

Considering contemporary Luddism, bottom-up coding, alternative digital infrastructures and speculative futures thinking: what perspective do we take when we look at the current state of labour? How can we (collectively) resist the automation of our work?

Amid the exhibition We Work Like Peasants While AI is Out There Painting and Writing Poetry, ECHO will take place: an evening of in-depth talks about the exhibition in which speakers from different fields of expertise will shine their light on the exhibition's themes.

The speakers at ECHO are Gavin Mueller, Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, artist and graphic designer Ana-Maria Cojocaru and transfeminist infrastructure artist Vo ezn of the collective Hackers & Designers. They zoom in on how we can resist the algorithmisation of work. The speakers each share their thoughts on the issue to offer not only a mosaic of perspectives, but also a set of concrete tools. With these perspectives, we can critically engage with the current state of labour and the latest technologies affecting it.