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“Dear Data,”operates in the space between aggrandized promises of disruption and salvation and the routine experience of being processed, analyzed, and consumed.

Artists examine how databases can preserve lost and overlooked histories while also reckoning with generative software that fills gaps in our recollection with fabricated memories—making false generalizations and amplifying harmful biases.

Exhibiting Artists: Nouf Aljowaysir, Alice Bucknell, Sarah Friend, Claudia Hart, Heesoo Kwon, Maya Man, Amor Muñoz, NOCELLCOVERAGE, Analia Saban, Tianyi Sun, Vickie Vainionpää, Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Anna Zhang

“Dear Data,” is co-curated by myself and ICA Director Iris Williamson. On view through December 13, 2026.

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𝗔𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰̧𝗮̃𝗼 ⚠️

Esta é a última semana para visitar as exposições patentes no Museu da Imagem, Casa dos Crivos, Theatro Circo e sala zero do gnration - todas situadas em Braga.

Tens até dia 𝟭𝟳 𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗯𝗿𝗼 (sábado). Não adies! 🏃‍♂️

Podes consultar os horários de funcionamento destes espaços no nosso site. Link na bio.

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𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ⚠️

This is the last week to visit the exhibition on show at Museu da Imagem, Casa dos Crivos, Theatro Circo and sala zero in gnration - all located in Braga.

You can go until 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳 (Saturday). Don’t postpone your visit! 🏃‍♂️

You can check the schedules of these venues on our website. Link in bio.

─── ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM 2026
𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨́𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚́𝐫𝐢𝐨 | 𝐋𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐬
𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 | 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬

🔗 www.encontrosdaimagem.com

© Adriano Ferreira Borges

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🌫️ Nouf Aljowaysir, Semillas ancestrales [video generado con la inteligencia artificial StyleGAN3 a partir del Archivo Salaf (Ancestros)], 2025.

👻 El trabajo de Nouf Aljowaysir se encuetra en las páginas de nuestro número #fantasmas. ¿Ya lo leíste? Encuentra la #RUM en librerías y disponible para consulta en nuestra página web. Enlace en el perfil.

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“Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructure and Hallucinations” Artwork Feature -

Nouf Aljowaysir
Salaf (Ancestors)
2021
Archival images augmented with U2-Net
Archival images from: Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography Collection

Colonial Index
2026
Google image results of the query “Iraq” augmented with U2-Net

Drawing on Edward Said’s Orientalism, Nouf Aljowaysir’s Salaf and Colonial Index examine how dominant visual regimes have shaped the representation of Arabia and the wider Middle East. European colonial imagery classified and exoticized the region, while later American representations increasingly reframed it through the languages of oil, threat, terrorism, and war.

The works in Salaf and Colonial Index are paired through related poses,
compositions, and visual structures. Erasure makes these visual parallels more apparent, drawing attention to recurring patterns across both bodies of work and how partial representations shape how the region is seen and understood.

HIDDEN LAYERS: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations
On view September 3 - October 3, 2026
Worth Ryder Art Gallery
Anthropology and Art Practice Building (AAPB Rm 116)
Near the intersection of College Ave and Bancroft Way
Hours: Monday/Wednesday 1pm-6pm, Tuesday/Thursday 12pm-6pm, Friday 1pm-5pm

@nouf.py
@minoosh_z
@worthryder
@ucberkeley_artpractice
@ucberkeleyofficial

Exhibition photos by Minoosh Zomorodinia

#contemporaryart #NewMediaArt #berkeleyart #installationart #NoufAljowaysir

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“Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructure and Hallucinations” Artwork Feature -

Nouf Aljowaysir
“Machine Vision Research in Archival Images”
2026
Object detection technique applied to archival images
Archival images from: Newcastle University Gertrude Bell Archive

Machine Vision Research in Archival Images (2026) by Nouf Aljowaysir examines how technologies of seeing can reproduce existing biases.
Using archival photographs taken by British colonial officer Gertrude Bell alongside contemporary Google image searches for “Iraq,” Aljowaysir explores how colonial representations of the Middle East intersect with today’s visual language of war and conflict.
When Bell’s photographs were processed through computer vision systems, they were repeatedly classified using terms associated with warfare—revealing how historical and contemporary biases can become embedded in computational ways of seeing, collapsing colonial history and the contemporary present into a reductive imaginary of the region. Images produced within one historical regime of representation were thus classified through another. This double exposure of past and present technologies of documentation reveals how the colonial archive is reframed through the militarized visual language that has shaped representations of the Middle East during and after the “War on Terror.”
HIDDEN LAYERS: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations
On view September 3 - October 3, 2026
Worth Ryder Art Gallery
Anthropology and Art Practice Building (AAPB Rm 116)
Near the intersection of College Ave and Bancroft Way
Hours: Monday/Wednesday 1pm-6pm, Tuesday/Thursday 12pm-6pm, Friday 1pm-5pm

@nouf.py
@worthryder
@ucberkeley_artpractice
@ucberkeleyofficial

#contemporaryart #NewMediaArt #berkeleyart #installationart #NoufAljowaysir

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Agradecemos a todos os que se juntaram a nós no passado sábado, neste segundo dia de inaugurações da 36.ª edição dos Encontros da Imagem 💖

Desde o centro histórico de Braga até ao Mosteiro de Tibães, ficamos a conhecer alguns projetos fotográficos da curadoria do tema “Territórios do Imaginário | Lugares Encantados”, dos prémios do festival, das residências artísticas e de entidades parceiras.

As próximas inaugurações acontecem esta quarta-feira, 23 de setembro, em Guimarães.

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We would like to thank everyone who joined us last Saturday, on this second day of openings at the 36th edition of Encontros da Imagem 💖

From the historic center of Braga to the Monastery of Tibães, we were able to discover photographic projects curated under the theme “Imagined Territories | Enchanted Lands”, from the festival’s awards, artist residencies and partner curators.

The next openings will take place this Wednesday, 23 September, in Guimarães.

─── ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM 2026
𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨́𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚́𝐫𝐢𝐨 | 𝐋𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐬
𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 | 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬

🔗 www.encontrosdaimagem.com

©️ Adriano Ferreira Borges

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𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢,

On View: October 2 – December 13, 2026
Opening Reception: October 2, 5:00 – 8:00pm

The distinction between data consumption and production is narrowing. Today, commonplace activities like voting, ordering takeout, boarding a flight, or solving a CAPTCHA now entail being captured and folded into algorithmic systems, built by corporations whose priorities carry no obligation to the social values of the people routed through them.

Artificial Intelligence may well be the defining technology of our lifetimes. As a breakthrough, it is less like the internet (which it is often compared to) and perhaps more like electricity. It is already wired into so many surrounding systems that move power: energy grids, healthcare, transit, law enforcement, customer service, cartography, and so on. AI might best be understood as an accumulation of digital dependencies decades in the making, arriving now as infrastructure. And while nearly every technology of record—from the knotted cord, to the woven cloth, to the photographic negative—has shaped how memory and history are retained, generative systems infer rather than retrieve. What is offered as recall is closer to a forecast.

𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢, operates in the space between aggrandized promises of disruption and salvation and the routine experience of being processed, analyzed, and consumed. Artists examine how databases can preserve lost and overlooked histories while also reckoning with generative software that fills gaps in our recollection with fabricated memories—making false generalizations and amplifying harmful biases.

𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬: Nouf Aljowaysir, Alice Bucknell, Sarah Friend, Claudia Hart, Heesoo Kwon, Maya Man, Amor Muñoz, NOCELLCOVERAGE, Analia Saban, Tianyi Sun, Vickie Vainionpää, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Anna Zhang

𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢, is curated by ICA Director Iris Williamson and independent curator Eileen Isagon Skyers.

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A Guide To October 2026 Photography Festivals & Exhibitions

PhMuseum Days, Photobook Mania, Photoworks Festival, SCAN Tarragona Festival, Acedia by Louise Desnos at Centre De La Photographie Genève, and Encontros da Imagem are among the photography events to visit next month.

Read the full article on phmuseum.com

Images copyrights:

1. @mirzoyan | @phmuseumdays
2. @maxpinckers | @phmuseumdays
3. @teryoshi | @photobookmania_
4. @almahaser | @photoworks_uk
5. @louise.desnos | @centre_photographie_geneve
6. @alexllovet | @scantarragona
7. @nouf.py | @eimagem
8. @andrzej.steinbach | @huismarseille
9. @raymondmosken | @fotofestival_oslonegativ

#phmuseum #festivals #photofestivals #photoexhibitions

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Earlier this summer at @caamedia, director AX Mina joined @atuyliyev @nouf.py in a conversation moderated by @zbarzi to talk about AI in documentary: “It’s hard to not get swept up in the frenzy of AI, but all the noise can obscure what these tools actually do and what’s at stake when we use them. This panel aims to offer clarity for filmmakers who are curious but cautious about what’s on the horizon.“ (And nope, while we support thoughtful uses of new technologies in documentary, we have no plans to use gen AI in RUBBISH)

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10 сентября | 19:30 | Открытие + Международный конкурс #1

Первый блок конкурсной программы объединяет фильмы, в которых технологии становятся не просто инструментом, а полноценной средой, захватывающей человека, его память и воображение. Здесь цифровое и физическое, человеческое и нечеловеческое, прошлое и возможное будущее постоянно переплетаются, заставляя заново задуматься о том, как формируется наша реальность и кто имеет право её рассказывать.

Авторы и герои представленных в первом блоке фильмов обращаются к вопросам идентичности, власти, коллективной памяти и экологического кризиса. Одни работы исследуют границу между создателем и созданием, другие — между личным воспоминанием и алгоритмической интерпретацией, человеком и природой, реальным и цифровым. Экспериментируя с 3D-анимацией, глитч-эстетикой, докуфикшном и иммерсивным изображением, фильмы блока предлагают разные способы представить настоящее и возможное будущее — от цифровых городов и искусственных собеседников до возвращения растений, вытесненных человеком.

#ofestart

Гильерме Петерс : The Alignment Problem | цветной | 13:24 | Бразилия | 2024

Экспериментальный короткометражный фильм-диалог между двумя нечеловеческими сущностями — «создателем» и его цифровым творением, — в котором язык и повторение постепенно выстраивают общую реальность. Полностью выполненный в 3D-графике, фильм превращает сам процесс компьютерного моделирования в визуальный приём и размышляет об идентичности, власти и подлинности опыта в мире, опосредованном технологиями.

Науф Альджовайсир : Where Am I From? | цветной | 13:00 | США, Саудовская Аравия | 2022

Визуальный дневник режиссёра становится исследованием собственной идентичности через воспоминания о детстве, семейную историю и взгляд ИИ-рассказчика. Пытаясь рассказать историю Науф, искусственный интеллект одновременно обнаруживает собственные стереотипы и ограничения, показывая, как алгоритмы могут упрощать личный опыт и стирать коллективную память.

Грегор Божич : Common Pear | цветной | 15:00 | Словения, Великобритания | 2025

В недалёком будущем учёные обращаются к архивным изображениям прошлого, пытаясь понять, каким когда-то было отношение человека #кино #кинопоказ #кинематограф #синема #короткийметр #shortfilm #cinema #documentaryfilm #докфильм #документальноекино #современноеискусство #contemporaryart #новыемедиа #newmediaart #видеоискусство #artfestival #перформанс #москва #кудасходитьвмоскве #афишамосква #москвасобытия #moscowevents #культурнаямосква #москвакультурная #кинофестиваль #filmfestival #internationalfilmfestival #arthousefilm #OFEST #ОФЕСТ2026 #ofestart

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“IMAGINED TERRITORIES” (exposição coletiva / group exhibition)
› Museu da Imagem [Braga]
› Curadoria: Wiktoria Michałkiewicz (@wiktoriami)

A exposição reúne quatro artistas, Alwin Maigler, Nouf Aljowaysir, Osheen Harruthoonyan e Tashiya de Mel, que questionam a forma como a fotografia construiu e perpetuou ideias de identidade, território e pertença.

Através de histórias coloniais, arquivos e experiências pessoais, os trabalhos revelam memórias apagadas, representações enviesadas e diferentes formas de imaginar o passado. Em conjunto, propõem um olhar crítico sobre quem é representado, quem é excluído e quem controla as narrativas visuais.

Entrada livre.

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The exhibition brings together four artists, Alwin Maigler, Nouf Aljowaysir, Osheen Harruthoonyan and Tashiya de Mel, who question how photography has shaped and perpetuated ideas of identity, territory and belonging.

Through colonial histories, archives and personal experiences, the works reveal erased memories, biased representations, and different ways of imagining the past. Together, they offer a critical perspective on who is represented, who is excluded, and who controls visual narratives.

Free admission.

─── ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM 2026
𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨́𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚́𝐫𝐢𝐨 | 𝐋𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐬
𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 | 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬

🔗 www.encontrosdaimagem.com

©
1 - “Horizon Denied”, Alwin Maigler
2 - “Salaf”, Nouf Aljowaysir
3 - “Black Garden”, Osheen Harruthoonyan
4 - “To taste a bittersweet history”, Tashiya de Mel

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What a machine can imagine depends on what it has been taught to remember.
This selection brings together three works that intervene in the construction of computational memory: what is withheld from training, what is transformed through it, and what can be reclaimed by building new forms of inheritance.
Curated by Angela D’Onghia (@audioalgesic)

Ceremonial Ancestors by @nouf.py
Babylonian Vision by @albadri.nora
Not The Only One by @stephanie.dinkins

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