11 Mar 3/18/25 Nouf Aljowaysir
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[Image Description: Nouf Aljowaysir, an Arab woman with long, dark, curly hair, smiles warmly at the camera. She is standing outside in nature, framed by snow and a mountainous backdrop.]
Nouf Aljowaysir
Tuesday | March 18, 2025 | 12PM – 1:30PM ET
Interrogating the Self through Technology: A Research-Based Artistic Practice on Digital Intimacy
From Alexa, Call Dead Mother and AI, Tell Me Where I’m From, Nouf Aljowaysir will discuss her practice of posing uncomfortable questions to technology. What does it mean to invite machines into our most intimate inquiries? As algorithms increasingly mediate our emotions, Nouf interrogates how our digital interactions shape our sense of self, and in what ways does it reinforce biases, flatten complexity, and commodify our vulnerabilities.
Bio:
Nouf Aljowaysir is a Saudi new media artist examining our changing behaviours and interactions with algorithms. By navigating intimate questions with AI tools and challenging their conventional utility, her work uncovers their underlying training logic and capitalist motivations that shape their outputs and influence our perspectives.
Nouf has exhibited projects in galleries and festivals globally, including Centre Pompidou, New Museum, Museo Tamayo, M+ Museum, IDFA, CPH:DOX, Tribeca Film Festival and others. Her latest film Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?) won the 2023 Moving Image Lumen Prize and was officially released with The New York Times Op-Docs series in June 2024.