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This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue VI, June 2026

Switzerland report

Exhibition, International Archives Week Panel

Exhibition

The exhibition Artistic Intelligence at the Glaab Gallery in Berne shows three artistic approaches for deconstructing machines and turning the development into humanity. Each artist selected a theme around intelligence production and pointed out an important aspect.
Fake News
The artist María Linares worked with the faces of authoritarian politicians. She prompted their faces with Bias reflecting their different appearances depending on skin and hair colour. To develop deep fakes with a tool that is based on social Bias is done within a few minutes. Boundaries are shifted and truth appears negotiable.
Mapping the skin
The artist Cornelia Roessler worked with the mapping of skins. The skin is the interface to the outside world. She layered different skins on top of each other. The so created pattern becomes a prototype for a fabric. The work shows how we all are vulnerable through our skin. Sharing experiences makes us stronger together.
Social Conditions
The work “Taking Over” by Sandra Becker reflects how robots take all our space. When recording the robot everyone jumped away – out of fear or as a perceived necessity because the robot looks like a dog. At this stage it seems sweet but considering that robots are used in the military there is a huge danger to the development of giving technology more space than humans and nature. To keep humans in the centre we need to have barriers for machines.

All artworks can be found on Wiki Commons. The banana sculpture with three videos adds a surreal element to the space making the message lighter. The banana unites all three positions to one sculpture.
Machines cannot breathe. They do not feel emotions. Their input comes from all the knowledge that ever was created on earth in more than two thousand years. Artistic practice can shape intelligence in a way of shaping humanity.

The project was part of the activities for celebrating 25 years of Wikipedia. It was the beginning of the International Archives Week reflecting archives that were developed by artists.

International Archives Week Panel

The theme given by the International Council of Archives was on justice in archives. From transitional justice and lived experience to community empowerment the theme is rather complex. Looking into non-sovereign contexts and focussing on shared heritage our panel presented four perspectives. At first the different definitions on justice have been presented. The second perspective showed how archiving works and what questions are coming up during the process. Explaing the way of decionmaking and reflecting underrepresented groups was leading to the next perspective of creating personal archives. Working with and in archives has knowledge suprises and a lot to discover for oneself.
The recording can be watched here.

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