join us for an performance by X.A. Li to open her exhibition “TERMINAL CARE”

about the exhibition:

Big data algorithms have permeated every aspect of daily life, yet we remain achingly human in an increasingly complex and abstracted world mediated by accelerating technologies. Drawing upon a formal background in machine learning research, X. A. Li co-opts advanced artificial intelligence methods to create uncanny environments confronting the distortion of personhood under systems of supposed optimization. Terminal Care comprises two multimedia installations spanning video, sound, text, and software, exploring the nature of aspiration, labor, and individual choice within the constrained logic of quantitative models.

about the artist:

X. A. Li (b. 1991) is an artist and computer scientist based in Chicago. Using video, sound, text, and software, she creates installations and performances excavating contemporary systems of power by applying dominant technologies in atypical ways. She holds an M.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where her research focused on generative artificial intelligence, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago. She has presented work across the United States and internationally, including audiovisual performances as Post Consumer Material with sound artist Estlin Usher.