{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 or AI models still in the 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.
