Black Boxes Shining Light:
a possible story of Artificial Intelligence

A psychedelic ethnographic journey that asks:
What does it mean to not know how a machine works? From ChatGPT and Killer Robots to medical breakthroughs and mass surveillance, Black Boxes Shining Light attempts to make sense of the emerging brave new world of Artificial Intelligence. The ethos of the film aligned with the Open Source movement aims to establish a common interdisciplinary space for critical approaches on A.I..

Presented at Society for Visual Anthropology’s Visual Research Conference at A.A.A Tampa 2024

Presented at Athens Ethnofest’s Special Programme ” Narrating the Fieldwork”

Part of the Masters Thesis for the Visual Anthropology Course at The University of Amsterdam.
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