Curator/writer Noor Bhangu’s (ON) Tastes Like Abundance explores how artists use AI to reimagine incomplete archives while addressing its profound risks in military applications. Bhangu’s article underscores the tension between the technology’s creative potential and its capacity for harm.
Noor Bhangu
Noor Bhangu is a curator and scholar, whose practice is rooted in relational curatorial aesthetics and practices. Through curatorial intervention, she hopes to involve politics of history, memory and materiality to problematize dominant histories of representation. She completed her BA in the History of Art and her MA in Cultural Studies: Curatorial Practices at the University of Winnipeg. In 2018, she began her PhD in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University in Tkaronto, Toronto.
The articles and projects in this issue stem from commissioned responses to the theme of “taste,” framed in part by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s text Distinction, which examines the relationship between taste and class.
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