Screen Walk with beck haberstroh

Generative AI companies rely on datasets that contain billions of photographs collected from across the internet. These photographs are of people—perhaps of you, or I, or people we love—many of whom will never know that their likeness is included in these datasets and being used to generate images, videos, text, or filters for selfies. Engaging the formats of masquerade, open-ended group brainstorm, and social contract, beck haberstroh’s We are already gathered aims to transform this data back into lived relationships and explore what happens when we reclaim these alienated representations of ourselves.  Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. A new online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery , UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur , Switzerland.