INHABIT #8 // Pamela Breda
© Pamela Breda
September – December 2022
Pamela Breda is an artist and filmmaker living between London and Venice. Her artistic practice with experimental film, photography, constructed objects, and installations explores representations and activities of political, social and cultural powers.
She is particularly interested in exploring the connection between science and social-cultural frameworks in terms of the impact of digital technologies on individual and collective spheres of identity, with a focus on the post-internet era of communication, the domain of virtual realities, and Artificial Intelligences (AI).
“The Unexpected” is an artistic research project exploring the impact of AI interfaces on human emotional and psychological domains through an experimental film and a video installation. From chat boxes to humanoid robots and artificial companions, humans today deal every day with any number of perceptive situations—in education, health and business—in which AI have become the main referents with whom we interact. This arts-based research will present an original critical examination of the outcomes of daily human-AI interactions. The project aims to develop this inquiry at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in order to explore the psychological and socio-cultural basis of our understanding and perceptions of AI.
Biography
Pamela Breda holds an MA in Art History from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice; an MA in Visual Arts from IUAV University, Venice; and she recently completed a PhD in Visual Arts from Kingston University in the UK. She has received a number of awards and fellowships, including the Cantica21 and an Italian Council Award from the Italian Ministry of Culture, an IMéRa Fellowship from Aix-Marseille University, a PhD scholarship from Kingston University, a Movin’Up grant from the City of Torino, and a STEAMplant artist residency at Pratt Institute in New York City. Her films have been screened internationally and presented at festivals and in art venues such as Sheffield DocFest (Sheffield, UK); ECRA Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Revolutions Per Minute Festival (Boston, USA); Digital Video Library, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France); Cité internationale des arts (Paris); Visions du Réel Film Festival, VdR-Film Market (Nyon, Switzerland)' Hazel Eye Film Festival (Nashville, USA); The Bomb Art Factory Film Festival (London, UK); Sohonya Art Center (Bangalore, India); Francesco Fabbri Foundation for Contemporary Art (Pieve di Soligo, Italy); and Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Venice).
