"Reimagining Algorithms" at ReflectSpace highlights how artists re-imagine and re-invent culture while also casting light on how the same technology is used for its destruction.
Reimagining Algorithms: Cultural Heritage in the Age of AI at ReflectSpace is an art-infused, researched-based and technologically adventurous exhibition that highlights how artists re-imagine and re-invent culture while also casting light on how the same technology is used for its destruction. Embedded in diverse cultural and historical narratives, the artists employ varied media and processes to rethink and recreate their culture through technology. In parallel, researchers and cultural workers delve into ways technology is employed to erase the art and culture of indigenous and colonized communities. The exhibit brings these two seemingly opposing polarities into proximity and questions their implications on our use of technology and AI (Artificial Intelligence) on cultural memory and identity.
Collectively, the artists, researchers and cultural workers in Reimagining Algorithms weave a tapestry of work that re-creates culture with new technological imaginings while also recognizing how systems can harness its algorithmic and extreme violence.
Reimagining Algorithms is curated by Ara & Anahid Oshagan and Monica Hye Yeon Jun and will be on view August 16 - November 2, 2025. For more information and to view the list of artists featured in the exhibition, visit ReflectSpace.org/post/Reimagining-Algorithms
Image: Still, Բաժակ Նայող (One Who Looks at the Cup), Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, dir. Atlas Acopian, score by Lara Sarkissian, 2024
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AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Art Exhibition |
TAGS: | ReflectSpace | Art Gallery | Art Exhibition |
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Library services in Glendale were first provided in 1906. The women of the Tuesday Afternoon Club, a social and philanthropic organization, raised money through a series of lectures to fund a library collection. The library opened in a renovated pool room at Third and E (Wilson and Everett) Streets with seventy books, soon supplemented by a State Traveling Library of fifty more, and served a population of 1,186.
In 1907, the City Trustees passed Ordinance 53 which established and supported a library which "...shall be forever free to the inhabitants and nonresident taxpayers of the City of Glendale..." The first year the library had 251 books, 165 registered patrons, and a budget of $248.88.
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