Digital bodies in transit. Contemporary artistic creation, artificial intelligence and decolonial criticism
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This article develops a comparative analysis of how three visual artists use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to think about themes such as the female body, gender and the migratory experience, from a decolonial perspective. Starting from the classic and contemporary literature on migration, we establish an intersection of this basis with a theoretical framework that articulates feminist posthumanism and the decolonial critique of AI architecture, to argue that AI functions as a structurally ambivalent device, insofar as it replicates colonial and gender biases, but is also appropriated by artists as an instrument of reinvention of the migrant body. Through a qualitative methodology that combines documentary and visual content analysis, we analyzed specific works by each artist, namely Tuty Moreno Campos, Rilda Paco and Morehshin Allahyari.
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