Reading Time: 6 minutes The Canadian photographer observes her own life to explore the commodification of our personal data and way of being

Reading Time: 6 minutes The Canadian photographer observes her own life to explore the commodification of our personal data and way of being
Reading Time: 2 minutes Winner of the BJP International Photography Award 2019, Jack Latham discusses his latest photobook Latent Bloom — which seeks to visualise how machine learning adapts and transforms every engagement we have online
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Chinese photographer takes photographs of everything, everywhere. In this way, he retains the power over his archive, in a country where image documentation is largely controlled by the government
Reading Time: 3 minutes Employing an AI robot and a tiny freshwater animal as her subjects, Tammi investigates the liminal space between life and death
Reading Time: < 1 minute With multiple projects displayed, Chabrowski creates a borderline space of video and sculpture
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Mexican-British artist gathered over 100 accounts from Mexican women who have experienced the result of embedded digital bias
Reading Time: 8 minutes With insight from Omar Kholeif, Charlotte Cotton and Charlie Engman, the implications of the evolving nature and speed of image-making and sharing are considered.
In this collection, we probe the debate surrounding the powers and ethics of some of these new and indeed, invasive technologies. How genetic modification might alter the makeup of entire ecosystems, for example. Or how humans are enhancing and modifying their bodies with new bio-limbs and sensors. And what about the biases in Artificial Intelligence, enough to rig elections and change government policy. Who is writing the codes and algorithms that will dictate our future way of life – are they to be trusted?
We also interrogate the digitisation of the image archive and the changing way we view photography – faster, smaller, louder. We look at how the image-makers of today react and innovate, creating work for an audience that is always connected. And, how photographers use digital media and the virtual space within their practice. You will find many compelling visual solutions in the Technology & Humanity Collection. You will also find that for many of the artists, these are inquiries that have only just started to unravel.