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The Girl is a paradox, at once hypervisible and impossible to define. Despite cultural efforts to erase or redefine her, she persists, mutating through media, politics and technology. She is not just an aesthetic persona, but an active force, capable of absorbing and subverting ideological narratives. By tracing her intertwining with AI, consumerism and gender politics, Quicho reveals the Girl’s extraordinary abilities: she can escape control and, in so doing, never truly disappears.
Alex Quicho is a theorist, artist and research director based in London. Her practice incorporates critical writing, performative lectures and moving image, with a focus on how emerging technologies warp social reality and vice versa. She studied critical writing at the Royal College of Art and teaches narrative theory for MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins. Her work has been featured in Wired, Frieze, Dazed, Vogue, Spike, The Face, MIT Technology Review and more.
EN | 10.5 x 16.7 cm | 16 pp | B/W | soft cover | 2025
ISBN 978-961-7173-58-1
Colophon
Alex Quicho
Girl Intelligence
PostScriptUM #52
Series edited by Janez Fakin Janša
Publisher: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Represented by: Marcela Okretič
Proofreading: Miha Šuštar
Design: Federico Antonini
Layout: Dominik Vrabič Dežman
Cover image: Şiir Biçer, Girlstack, 2023
© Aksioma | All text and image rights reserved by their respective authors
Ljubljana, February 2025
Published as part of the programme
tactics&practice#16: Are You A Software Update?
In the framework of the .expub project co-funded by the European Union.
Additionally supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
The research for Girl Intelligence is generously supported by the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures.
Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.