Hello, everyone!

Happy to share my new artistic work and ongoing research on AI and art of 
instructions with the community. 

Trust Territories 
Artistic research project by Albena Baeva and Natalia Fuchs
Goethe-institut Bulgaria Gallery, Sofia

In the Trust Territories Albena Baeva and Natalia Fuchs explore topics of 
trauma, trust, and alternative futures through the lens of machines. It employs 
artificial intelligence to create instructions for artworks based on original 
instruction paintings and performances from the 1960s supplemented by other 
instructions carefully selected by the artists. Human control and manipulation 
were among the main themes explored in art at that time. Nowadays we experience 
a new loss of trust in authorities, traditional media, science and new surges 
of fear and anxiety. In the critical conditions of the pandemic, we had to 
partly give up control since our income, our communication with other humans, 
and our closest connections were dependent on the interaction with smart 
technologies only. Has a new collaborative state between machines and humans 
evolved? How trust in AI and machines, in general, became an important research 
area? Has our trust in machines and the digital space changed over time? Now is 
the right time to explore the borders of such new experiences with technology 
and our possible new trust in it. Trust Territories builds a proving ground 
where the spectator could beta test their level of trust towards the artificial 
intelligence.  

Albena Baeva and Natalia Fuchs as an artistic collective research the history 
of instruction artworks from the past century and recent works in order to 
train a GPT-2 language model that creates new instructions and scores for 
artworks. With every new exhibition or performance, the project evolves and 
becomes a repository of stories of the relationship of trust between human and 
machine.

Trust Territories have premiered on June 10th, 2021, in Goethe-Institut 
Bulgaria in Sofia where artistic collective executes the instructions generated 
by the algorithm and interprets selected instructions in the form of drawings, 
a mural, and augmented reality sculptures. The works result in the dialogue 
between artistic autonomy and machine intelligence, where giving up control 
over the outcome and the ability to trust technology are central themes.

More information: www.trustterritories.com <http://www.trustterritories.com/>

Digitally yours,

Natalia Fuchs I Наталья Фукс
Curator, Media Art Historian, Producer
ARTYPICAL I Curatorial solutions for culture and education 

Cell: +79104320152
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.artypical.com 







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