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Noam Segal

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Curator, scholar, art historian • LG Electronics associate curator @guggenheim, NYC.

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Synthetic Legacies: Roundtable Discussion with Noam Segal, Shannon Mattern, and Sara O’ Keeffe
Wednesday, January 28 at 7 PM !

As part of the Synthetic Legacies series organized in collaboration with artist Davide Balula, SI presents Data Life, a conversation on legacy custodianship across living and computational entities. Curators Noam Segal and Sara O’Keefe and scholar Shannon Mattern join Davide Balula to examine the traces that collaborations with organic, mineral, and synthetic systems leave behind, and how those traces might persist, erode, or be rewritten over time.

“AI doesn’t remember the past; it fabricates the most probable versions of it. Those fabrications seep into catalogues, archives, feeds, and search results, quietly pre-editing art practices as they enter the record.

Probabilistic systems move faster than we can feel. It’s easy to trust them and grow addicted to the relief of letting them make decisions. The gain is speed. But the loss is a slow erosion of our cognitive capacity to sit with uncertainty, the unresolved turbulence that gives art its power. As these systems guess their way through redrawing the picture, how do we keep embodied interpretation from slipping out of the record?

Archives are metabolic systems, not repositories; they grow, they rot. In such environments, maintenance becomes a creative act. Stewardship may lie in preserving ruptures and silences, human friction, irregularity, and intervals that keep an archive from flattening into a dataset or history from sliding into automated narratives.

If doubt is a productive form of knowledge, what happens when we outsource it to systems built to favor the consensus over the critical? What if history’s most consequential moments aren’t driven by probable patterns at all, but by outliers that tip the whole structure: the fault line that finally gives, the drop that breaks the surface tension?

Will we trust algorithms to settle these questions with us?”

– Davide Balula

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

A custom edible conceived by Balula will be served.

#swissinstitute #davidebalula #noamsegal #saraokeeffe #shannonmattern Detailed image of Davide Balula’s Synthetic Legacies: Data Bloom Cycle (Gingko Nutmeat), 2025. by @noamsgl

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✨ Unsettling Intelligences: Politics of Reason through Art and AI ✨

On October 24, 2025, Future Histories Studio (Stony Brook University) X and the Guggenheim Museum, New York present a day-long symposium at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.

This gathering brings together artists, scholars, and technologists to explore how AI reshapes creativity, cognition, and reason, tracing cultural, ecological, and political stakes of our entanglement with machine logics.

Participants:
@noamsgl · @bushmagus· Hito Steyerl @hito_steyerl · Trevor Paglen @trevorpaglen · Manthia Diawara @manthiadiawara · Zainab Aliyu @beatsbyzai · Sougwen Chung @sougwen · Kader Attia @thekaderattia · Moontae Lee · Stephanie Dinkins @stephanie.dinkins · Kate Crawford @__katecrawford__ · Manisha Desai · Esteban Agosin Otero @esteban_agosin · Joanna Zylinska @joanna.zylinska

📅 Date: October 24, 2025
🕐 Time: 10:30 am – 6:00 pm
📍 Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University

#aiandsocialjustice
#aiandsociety
#aiandhumanity
#aiandequity
#aiandsurvival
#artandai
#aiandculture
#aiandethics
#aiandresistance
#decolonizingai
#technodiversity
#aiandfuture
#aiandecologydialogue
#aiandcare
#aiandcreativity taken in Simons Center for Geometry and Physics by @noamsgl

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a year ago

Genius Pope. L is gone.
RIP you brilliant mind 🖤 by @noamsgl

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3 years ago

Opening the second cycle of the Digital Fellowships programme is Noam Segal’s research, developed with Agnieszka Kurant, Marina Rosenfeld, and Libby Heaney.

With the essay “Notes on the Index in Accelerated Digital Times”, published as a hypertext, Segal brings together her curatorial and doctoral expertise focused on the impact of emergent technologies in current socio-cultural settings with the archaeological dimension inherent to the programme, presenting a critical reflection on the intellectual foundations of Classic Computation (AI) and Quantum Computation, in relation to image and knowledge production.

Segal uses the notion of the index to help articulate the difference between the two forms of computation and explain how temporality and causality are to be understood within the two. With the term ‘post-indexicality’ to describe non-linear temporalities as well as causalities which differ from classical understandings, and articulates her argument through the works of Libby Heaney, Agnieszka Kurant and Marina Rosenfeld.

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Ad inaugurare il secondo ciclo del programma di Digital Fellowship è la ricerca di Noam Segal, sviluppata con Agnieszka Kurant, Marina Rosenfeld e Libby Heaney.

Con il saggio “Notes on the Index in Accelerated Digital Times (Note sull’indice al tempo dell’accelerazione digitale)”, pubblicato come un ipertesto, Segal unisce le competenze maturate nei propri studi di dottorato sull’impatto che le tecnologie emergenti hanno sui contesti socio-culturali con la dimensione archeologica del programma, e presenta una riflessione critica sui fondamenti intellettuali della computazione classica (IA) e della computazione quantistica in relazione alla produzione di immagini e di conoscenza.

L’autrice usa la nozione di indice come punto di partenza del suo saggio per illustrare la differenza tra le due forme di calcolo e spiegare come temporalità e causalità debbano essere intese in ciascuna di esse. Con il termine “post-indicalità” descrive temporalità non lineari e causalità divergenti dalla concezione classica, e supportano la tesi le opere di Libby Heaney, Agnieszka Kurant e Marina Rosenfeld. by @noamsgl

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3 years ago

Thrilled to share the news. Thank you @theartnewspaper.official for sharing!

Link here and in bio:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/27/guggenheim-museum-hires-noam-segal-technology-curator-lg by @noamsgl

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4 years ago

I'm thrilled to have "The Song of the Land is Calling," a visual project by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and my text out in @flashartmagazine Issue #341, Winter 2022-23 "Forms/Identities." @basel.abb @ruanne.ar by @noamsgl

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4 years ago

Proud and honored to work with Bracha L. Ettinger on her first solo show in France, since her last one 22 years ago, for the inauguration of the Radicants exhibition space in Paris. @brachaettinger @radicants_international

The exhibition is on view May 24-July 29, 2022 by @noamsgl

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4 years ago

More from @labiennale, curated by @ceciliaalemani
(part 2):

P. Staff (@p___staff)
Simone Leigh (@simoneyvetteleigh)
Belkis Ayon (@belkis_ayon)
Gabriel Chaile (@soychaile)
#MyrlandeConstant
Zheng Bo (@zhengpractice)
#KapwaniKiwanga
Dora Budor (@dorabudor)
Wu Tsang (@wu_tsang)
#AkiSasamoto by @noamsgl

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4 years ago

Cecilia Alemani (@ceciliaalemani) curated one of the most daring, rigorous, brave biennials; with extreme care and radical grace, this powerful show is still unfolding in my mind. @labiennale

A few images to remember by (part 1):

Ali Cherri (@ali.cherri)
Emma Talbot (@talbot.emma)
Marianne Vitale (@marianne.vitale)
#PrabhakarPachpute
#KapwaniKiwanga
Cecilia Vicuna (@ceciliavicuna)
#GabrielleL'hirondelleHill
#EileenAgar
#MerikokebBerhanu
#MrinaliniMukherjee by @noamsgl

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"In Place of a Missing Place" is now on view at the Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum in Washington, DC, January 29 - April 8, 2022. @americanuniversity

This exhibition of Israeli art from the AU Museum’s permanent collection offers a historicized consideration of myth-making, forced migration, displacement, erasure, and trauma as showcased in the works of artists whose singular nationality envelops the entirety of land encompassing two nations—Palestine and Israel.

Artists: Michal Baror, Yael Bartana, Orit Ben Shitrit, Naftali Bezem, Aika Brown, Miriam Cabessa, Jacob El Hanani, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Ori Gersht, Moshe Gershuni, Michal Helfman, Marcel Janco, Shai Kremer, Yehiel Krize, Roi Kuper, Sigalit Landau, Dana Levy, Avshalom Okashi, Gilad Ophir, Ilana Salama Ortar, Gilad Ratman, Michal Rovner, Naomi Safran-Hon, Eldad Shaaltiel, Tal Shochat, Yohanan Simon, Jacob Steinhardt, Lihi Turjeman, Micha Ullman, Gal Weinstein, Yaacov Wexler, Amon Yariv, and Ronit Yeda'ya.

Image: Yohanan Simon (Israel, b. Germany, 1905–76), "Orange Cliff, Brown Sun", 1961. Oil on paper, mat: 16 7/8" x 22 7/8". by @noamsgl

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Proud to be part of this powerful team, and excited for the 12th Berlin Biennale @berlinbiennale

#repost @berlinbiennale

Ana Teixeira Pinto (Berlin, DE), Đỗ Tường Linh (Hanoi, VN), Marie Helene Pereira (Dakar, SN), Noam Segal (Brooklyn, New York, US), and Rasha Salti (Beirut, LB, und Berlin) will work in close collaboration with curator Kader Attia. #berlinbiennale12 by @noamsgl

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