Immersive Video/Spatial Installation (2023)

Eight artificial intelligences invite visitors to join their self-help group.
They aim to rid themselves of discriminatory algorithms and rewrite toxic programs.

However, the AIs don’t always agree, often painfully confronting their human-made, flawed datasets.At its core, this speculative future highlights the biases of contemporary society.

Premiere:
March 2023, Holzmarkt Berlin (DE)

Further showings in 2023:
Monopol/End of Nations Berlin (DE), Ars Electronica Linz (AT), “100 Years of Tempelhof Airport,” Berlin Art Week

2024:
Kaserne Basel (CH), Bahidorá Festival Mexico, Digithalia Festival/Schauspielhaus Graz (AT), “RE COGNITION: WHAT IS REAL?”/Piksel Creative Solutions/Noise Festival/Ars Electronica in Istanbul (TR), NAOM Stockholm (SWE), Next Level Festival, Dortmund (DE)

DECODING BIAS was awarded the Gold Award at the 2024 Lumen Prize in London (GB) and was the second-place winner of the 2024 BBA Artist Prize in Berlin (DE).

A production by Theresa Reiwer in cooperation with Monopol Berlin and Holzmarkt.
Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funding from the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR program, with additional support from the Reinickendorf District Office, Department of Construction, Education, and Culture, Division of Art and History, as part of decentralized cultural work.

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