Generative AI and Violence in Gaza
The Contesting Governance Platform, under its Palestine Lab priority area, has invited Donatella Della Ratta to show her lecture/video performance, Ask Me For Those Unborn Promises that May Seem Unlikely to Happen in the Natural #5. She made this performance in collaboration with (Amsterdam).
Generative AI creates speculative visuals that, while not based on factual events, remain plausible, constructing realities that have yet to unfold. Situated within the domain of possibility rather than empirical certainty, these visuals introduce a new form of 'synthetic realism'. By reshaping both past and present through their world-building potential, these seemingly innocuous images - detached from tangible references, historical ties, lineage, or context - wield a quiet yet profound violence against history and factuality. The lecture performance examines 'speculative violence,' a developing mode of the image鈥檚 existence that oscillates between overt destruction and subtle, almost imperceptible effects. Blending text with visuals - including found footage, social media threads, and AI-generated media - the piece takes the audience on an unsettling journey through the violence of the not-yet-realised, traversing landscapes from Palestine to Trump鈥檚 America, and implicating oblivious cows.
The performance is followed by a conversation with Fabio Cristiano, Jolle Demmers, and Nermin Elsherif.
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- Muntstraat 2A Theaterzaal
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- Free
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