Vishal Kumaraswamy will be in conversation with Zarina Muhammad, co-founder of The White Pube, on the occasion of the launch of his new online commission.

For Empathy Loading, Bangalore-based artist Vishal Kumaraswamy will discuss the creative processes behind the making of Svāyattate (Autonomy) (2020). Joined in conversation by Zarina Muhammad, the exchange will centre on exploring the role empathy can play in how humans shape, cohabit and nurture their relationships with machines.

Addressing the language of autonomy within machine intelligence and sentience, Vishal Kumaraswamy’s practice considers alternative forms of caregiving and -receiving as a strategy to speculate on non-hierarchical relationships between humans and technology. For this event, Vishal Kumaraswamy and Zarina Muhammad will share alter-global perspectives on the futures of feeling to re-evaluate modes of cohabitation with non-humans.

Empathy Loading is a new online project exploring empathetic relationships between humans and networked non-humans. The project is developed by students from the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme Graduate Projects 2020, Royal College of Art, London, in partnership with Furtherfield as part of their Love Machines summer programme.

This conversation will be held on Zoom - https://rca-ac.zoom.us/j/98535183580?pwd=TDAwQnVKNnpVZEgvV1JZUDZzYngxUT09

Meeting ID: 985 3518 3580

Password: 203706

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Vishal Kumaraswamy is a new media artist and film-maker currently based in Bangalore, India. His work has been presented at the Venice Biennale’s Research Pavilion, Galeria-de Arte-Mexicano, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Birmingham Art Summit, Apex Art’s Savdhaan – Regimes of Truth and will shortly be exhibited at The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Vishal Kumaraswamy is also the founder of the international artist collective Now You Have Authority (www.nyhacollective.com), a collaborative practice through which he has curated exhibitions and residencies, and delivered workshops at Tate Modern’s Tate Exchange programme, Tanzfest Aarau and The Sluice Biennial.

Zarina Muhammad is an art critic @ The White Pube (thewhitepube.com // @thewhitepube) where she writes about exhibitions, how art makes her feel and how institutions operate. Cancer sun/aries moon/sagittarius ascendant. ‘Intellectual charlatan’, ‘sociopathic pseudo-critic’, leading proponent of ‘The Philosophy of the Warm Tummy’ & cowboy in the art world.

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UPCOMING: Speculative Listening by Amina Abbas-Nazari | 18 – 21 June 2020

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