Love and the City

11/30/24 • 28 min

What happens when our public behaviour is constantly monitored? Do we still hug, kiss, or allow ourselves to be vulnerable in public, does it stop us from being at our worst? In this episode, we talk to artist Noemi Iglesias Barrios and Guggenheim curator Noam Segal about surveillance systems in the public space and why we might want to 'measure' cities in terms of emotionality by training algorithms to search for signs of love on the streets.
Resources:
The Radicality of Love by Srećko Horvat
The Shadow (1981) by Sophie Calle
Noise by C. R. Sunstein, D. Kahneman, and O. Sibony
The Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari

Host & Producer: Ana-Maria Carabelea
Editing: Ana-Maria Carabelea
Music: Karl Julian Schmidinger
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The Digital Deal Podcast - Love and the City

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Ana-Maria Carabelea: Welcome to The Digital Deal Podcast, the series where we talk about how new technologies reshape our democracies and how artists and critical thinkers can help us make sense of these changes. My name is Ana Carabelea, and today, I am joined by artist Noemi Iglesias Barrios and curator Noam Segal.

Noemi Iglesias Barrios is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working with porcelain and long durational performative formats. Her p