Stages #9 explores AI and curating at the time of the 11th edition of Liverpool Biennial,The Stomach and The Port. What can the practice of curating learn from AI, what can AI learn from curating, and how can both learn from questioning knowledge forms derived from colonialist frameworks of humans and machines?
This volume of the Liverpool Biennial journal Stages draws connection between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and curating, at the time of the 11th edition of Liverpool Biennial The Stomach and The Port, and against the backdrop of the global pandemic, political and social turmoils, and technologically mediated and sustained world at present.
Considering the rapid developments in automation (such as AI) and how our relation to it has changed, it poses questions about the implications for contemporary art; the limits of and possibilities for curatorial practice under these conditions, and the relevance and future of cultural institutions and global biennials in particular in the post-pandemic world. What are the lessons to be learnt. What can the practice of curating learn from AI, what can AI learn from curating, and how can both learn from questioning knowledge forms derived from colonialist frameworks of humans and machines?