Aliados-valokuvanäyttely

• Main Author: Ulkuniemi, Seija
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Cultural Francisco Prat Puig 2024
• Subjects: antroposeeni; posthumanismi; metsä; Lappi; valokuva; tekoäly; anthropocene; posthumanism; forest; Lapland; photograph; artificial intelligence; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/6/13/2; name=Visual arts and design; Yoke
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/132fd63d-03fe-4c9a-9416-c6b488b686c4; https://www.facebook.com/orgullodesantiago/photos/no-te-pierdas-la-exposici%C3%B3n-aliados-de-seija-ulkuniemidel-7-al-18-de-noviembre-d/969253215238605/?_rdr

Seija Ulkuniemi (2024) ALLIES Am I, a human being, an endangered animal species among many other endangered species? Do I call myself human to understand my special position: Do I have the capacity and the opportunity to think about what my action would be good for? Would it be good for me also to protect and not only to cultivate? The critical concepts of posthumanism and anthropocene are advancing in our time. According to the former, man's place in the world is being re-examined. The human being is no longer considered the centre of valuation, but part of all living beings. The Anthropocene refers to the geological phase that began with industrialisation, where the mass extinction of species has accelerated enormously. Man, part of nature, depends on nature and is therefore in union with nature. Humans are able to shape the rest of nature very strongly. Humans are developing technologies with which they are trying to slow down climate change. Humans are developing artificial intelligence to use humanity's store of knowledge. Man is allied with technology. Is technology a human yoke or is it becoming the master? The images in this exhibition were created when something in the technological process of producing digital photographs went wrong. I took tree-themed digital photographs during my ski trip in the forest in my home region. Some of the images had, for some unknown reason, ‘reading errors’: pixels had turned into coloured stripes, some of the image surfaces had bent and shifted, and some of the colours had changed completely. At first I looked at the images with horror, but then they began to fascinate me. In my opinion, these images, with their strange beauty, represent the fact that technology does not always work as we expect it to.' I generated the titles of the photos using the AI asking for ‘Copilot’ to produce a poetic title. I almost always accepted its first suggestion.