Events

Mumbai-based CAMP discusses “DeepFacts,” created with AI "deepfake" software to present Mumbai gallerists Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy speaking to each other about a range of things being said and written about them, including their corrections of facts mentioned in their biography Citizen Gallery: The Gandhys of Chemould and the Birth of Modern Art in Bombay (Jerry Pinto, 2022). The video installation uses archival footage of Kekoo and Khorshed, who died in 2012 and 2013, respectively, and animates their faces over the bodies of actors (close friends of the family). The artwork challenges the populist notion that artificial intelligence is placed within the framework of risk/harm and regulation. Instead, it allows us to see the creative possibilities that this technology enables. 

Presented by the Visual Arts and Film MFA Programs at Columbia University School of the Arts, and The South Asia Institute (SAI) at Columbia University.

About the Artists
CAMP was founded in 2007 by Shaina Anand, Sanjay Bhangar and Ashok Sukumaran. CAMP is not an "artists collective" but rather a studio in which ideas and energies gather and become interests and forms. CAMP has been producing work in film and video, electronic media, and public art forms in a practice characterized by a hand-dirtying, non-alienated relation to technology. They host the online media archives Pad.ma (since 2008) and Indiancine.ma (since 2013). CAMP’s artistic projects have engaged with complex social and technical assemblies: energy, communication, transport and surveillance systems, ports, ships, archives and housing projects – things much larger than themselves. They were awarded the 7th Nam June Paik Centre Prize and are 2024-2025 visiting fellows at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at UPenn. 

MACHINE VISION(S) is a series organized by Naeem Mohaiemen, Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Concentration Head of Photography at Columbia University School of Arts. This series is supported by Google's Artists + Machine Intelligence Research Award and the Office Of The Provost at Columbia University. It is a companion to the class Artificial Intelligence & Photography, taught by Mohaiemen at the School of the Arts.