{"id":1221,"date":"2025-02-05T22:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/ayasu\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:17:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:17:29","slug":"variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/symposium\/variations\/","title":{"rendered":"Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1094\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/talk_Felicity-Hammond_BI-www.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/talk_Felicity-Hammond_BI-www.jpg 1640w, https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/talk_Felicity-Hammond_BI-www-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/talk_Felicity-Hammond_BI-www-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/talk_Felicity-Hammond_BI-www-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The focus of this talk will be <em>Variations <\/em>\u2013 an artistic research project by Felicity Hammond that interrogates the meeting places of geological mining and data mining. Over the past two years, Hammond has explored the extractive systems that bind these processes together, inserting herself into the machine that drives contemporary image production. Staged across four chapters and ending in a funeral service for artificial intelligence, <em>Variations <\/em>maps how digital material makes its way from mineral to pixel, from the subsurface to the screen.<br><br>This talk will share the details of each chapter, from the fictional organisation set up to manually classify physical materials as data, to the enactment of model collapse. 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