OPENING RECEPTION:

Friday, October 24th 6-10pm

GALLERY HOURS:

Saturday, October 25th, 10am-5pm

Rebecca Forstater (she/they) is a South Carolina–based interdisciplinary artist who received her MFA from Syracuse University and her BFA from James Madison University. Forstater currently serves as Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Wofford College, is on the board of the New Media Caucus, and is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL.

{Training_camp} examines the creation of public memory in the current AI-fueled rat race through the lens of pop-culture history. Focusing on Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, Forstater utilized the materiality of emerging AI software to make this installation, asking the training models to contextualize the past given the algorithm's present pool of data. The narrative of this Super Bowl performance, an event deeply intertwined with race, gender, and politics, is a case study of biased ideologies embedded in our digital social consciousness. The outcomes of the objects and videos visualize peculiar amalgamations, riddled with errors, and reveal fleeting instances of progress entangled with societal mistakes, shapeshifting into new iterations.

This body of work was created digitally, designed either through user-friendly AI models and AI models still in testing-phase during 2022-23. Each object exists in both digital and physical forms. Existing first as .png, .mp4, .wav, and .stl files that then find physical form to inhabit this room as decals, TV screens playing videos, and 3D prints. These objects echo the perpetual circulation and transformation of data and society, both on and offline, each informing the other.