TITLE: AI-centric Curriculum (2024)
AUTHOR: paula roush
MEDIUM: 90 LLM-generated photo-texts, 29.7 x 21 cm each
In AI-centric Curriculum, I (paula) worked with an AI agent to generate ninety speculative academic titles reflecting my art-research portfolio and current academic labour market. This project emerged in response to my redundancy after a restructuring proposal at London South Bank University led to the closure of the Photography program. Drawing on my biography and job precarity, the AI produced titles such as “Professor of AI and Transitional Design,” “Curatorial Research Leader in AI and Digital Ecologies,” “Senior Lecturer in AI Ethics and Hydrofeminist New Materialisms,” “Principal Investigator in AI Artistic Technologies and Ecologies,” “Director of Pluriversal AI Studies,” “Chief Officer of Decolonial AI Strategies,” and “Head of AI Water Inquiry and Creative Practices.” Using these titles, I trained an AI model on my headshots to generate a collection of academic portraits. These portraits were displayed on ten blue boards, a format commonly used in academic departments to present faculty members alongside their titles.
Included in the exhibition
'paula' & Work: A Document on the
Machinic Enslavement in Academic Capitalism
contact
paula roush ::: paularoush@gmail.com
msdm studio ::: msdm@msdm.org.uk