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Decolonising Collections: Babylonian Vision

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This lecture explores Nora Al-Badri's use of General Adversarial Networks to generate technoheritage and decolonise Mesopotamian artefacts collections. Al-Badri discusses ethical AI, the Blackbox problem, and artistic explorations towards synthetic image-making.

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