Jake Elwes is a media artist living and working in London. He studied at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2013-17). In his art Elwes engages with both the history and tropes of fine art and the possibilities and consequences of digital code with a recent focus on machine learning. His projects explore how we interact with and conceive of technology and artificial intelligence, exploring the technology, philosophy, and ethics behind it, asking questions such as what happens to artistic agency when working with artificial intelligence? What does it mean to collaborate creatively with an unpredictable algorithm, learning from data sets unsupervised, and how does this fit into a history of conceptual and systems art? His practice looks for poetry and narrative in the success and failures of these systems, while also investigating and questioning the code and ethics behind them. His current works in the Zizi Project explore AI bias by queering datasets with drag performers. They simultaneously demystify and subvert AI systems.
Jake's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Zabludowicz Collection, Ars Electronica, Victoria and Albert Museum and Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He has been featured on ZDF & BBC.
