Techart Conference

Rachel Falconer

■ Abstract

In this presentation new non-linear and expanded forms of storytelling will be explored through the optic of collaborative machine learning systems embedded within artistic practices. Critical approaches to storytelling as mediated through co-authorship and distributed creative models will be explored and a provocation positioned around the changing landscape of AI and creativity that is becoming abstracted from the traditionally dominant "Grand Narrator" protocol of filmic logics. 

■ Bio

Rachel Falconer is a Digital Art curator, academic and founder of the curatorial collective Mutable Prototype Syndicate. She is Senior Lecturer and Head of Digital Arts Computing at Goldsmiths University London and operates at the critical intersection of contemporary art practice, emergent technologies, feminist technoscience and networked culture. Drawing on her experience in the film, advertising and gaming industries to inform her systems-based practice, Rachel has conceived and delivered multi-scale interdisciplinary curatorial platforms and public programming, alternative exhibition models, residencies and innovative public research platforms in an international context spanning a diversity of critical modes of engagement with technology. She is regularly invited to participate in public programmes and Jury panels at institutions including; The New Museum, Transmediale, Tate, Barbican, ICA, V&A, Somerset House Studios, The Photographers Gallery, Sonar +D, Lumen Prize, Whitechapel Gallery, Coleccion SOLO, Arebyte Gallery and Gazelli Art House. Her writing has been published across platforms including; Routledge, Sternberg Press, The Guardian, Frieze, BOMB magazine, Dazed Digital, The British Journal of Photography and The White Review. She is a RSA Fellow and Co-Director of the Process-Iteration-Modelling Network at Goldsmiths University.