Karim Hamdi

I'm a creative technologist specialised in AI, IoT and robotics. My main interests are the interaction of people with technology and the revelatory effects of technology on humans on an individual as well as societal level.

I came up through the German hacker scene, when I got involved as one of the main organisers of Make Munich, Germany's first maker festival, and co-founded the Munich Maker Lab in 2013. I continued my path hosting workshops and temporary hackerspaces at events like Hedo-Congress, MLOVE, DMY, etc.

During the D#AVANTGARDE GenAI Lab at the art&tech Hackathon Schmiede24: Faust, I started an exploration of cultural representation in the latent space of generative AI models that lead to the ongoing Hegemony Eroding art project.

Events with this speaker

Day 3

21:05

40m

Hegemony Eroding: Excavating Diversity in Latent Space

Hegemony Eroding is an ongoing art project exploring how generative AI reflects and distorts cultural representation. Its name speaks to its core ambition: to bear witness to the slow erosion of Western cultural hegemony by exposing the cracks in which other cultures shine through. This talk will discuss the blurry boundary between legitimate cultural representation and prejudice in AI-generated media and how generative AI can be used as a tool to explore humanity's digital foot print. It is permeated by a critique of purely profit-driven AI development and it's tendency to blunt artistic exploration and expression.