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Data • Glitch • Utopia: Jake Elwes

Past exhibition
2 June - 15 July 2023 London
Jake Elwes, Zizi - Queering the Dataset (02), 2019

Jake Elwes

Zizi - Queering the Dataset (02), 2019
Digital video on custom LED screen
135 minutes loop
50 x 50 cm
19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in
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‘Zizi - Queering the Dataset’ aims to tackle the lack of representation and diversity in the training datasets often used by facial recognition systems. The video was made by disrupting...
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‘Zizi - Queering the Dataset’ aims to tackle the lack of representation and diversity in the training datasets often used by facial recognition systems. The video was made by disrupting these systems* and re-training them with the addition of drag and gender fluid faces found online. This causes the weights inside the neural network to shift away from the normative identities it was originally trained on and into a space of queerness. ‘Zizi - Queering The Dataset’ lets us peek inside the machine learning system and visualise what the neural network has (and hasn’t) learnt. The work is a celebration of difference and ambiguity, which invites us to reflect on bias in our data driven society.
The Zizi Project (2019 - ongoing) is a collection of works by Jake Elwes exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and drag performance. Drag challenges gender and explores otherness, while A.I. is often mystified as a concept and tool, and is complicit in reproducing social bias. Zizi combines these themes through a deepfake, synthesised drag identity created using machine learning. The project explores what AI can teach us about drag, and what drag can teach us about A.I.
Zizi: Queering the Dataset (2019) was originally commissioned as a seven channel video installation by Experiential AI at Edinburgh Futures Institute and Inspace, The University of Edinburgh.
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Exhibitions

Surreal Futures, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany (2024)
Data • Glitch • Utopia, Gazelli Art House, London, UK (2023)
Glitch. Die Kunst Der Störung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2023)
Zizi - Queering the Dataset (solo display), Gazelli Art House, London, UK (2023)
The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale Of Modern Britain, Somerset House, London, UK (2022)
Riposte - Queer Art Techno Rave, Electrowerkz, London, UK (2022)
UKINTER:ACTIVE - Breaking The Code CPH:DOX, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022)
Among the Machines, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (2021)
Zizi - Queering the Dataset, Gazelli Art House, London, UK (2021)
BIAS, Science Gallery Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (2021)
You and AI (touring), Onassis Foundation and Future Everything, Gazometro Rome, Italy (2020)
Critical Borders: Radical (Re)visiions of AI, Center for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge University, UK (2020)
You and AI, Onassis Foundation, Pedion tou Areos Park, Athens, Greece (2020)
The Third Gender, A.K.T, Pforzheim, Germany (2020)
PRETERNATURAL: Jake Elwes Solo show, Data Lates | Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (2019)
Real-Time Contraints (virtual browser extension, COVID-19), Arebyte Gallery, London, UK (2019)
Fluid Bodies, E-WERK Freiburg, Germany (2019)
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