Francis Hunger / media art, feminism, AI critique, media theory /
Bibliography of academic publications with PDF links ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6948-4256 2026 Glossaire critique de l’Intelligence Artificielle. In: RYBN.ORG Human Computers – Une histoire de l’Informatique Laborieuse. UV Editions, Paris 2026, p. 195-210, ISBN : 9782494333024 Kybernetik war nicht alles. Die langen Ketten bürokratischer Praktiken im DDR-Alltag. In: Ostertag, Rossol (Eds.):…
I m co-founder and co-editor of carrier-bag.net an academic open-access publication, founded in 2025. Instead of focusing on the often weapon-centric tropes of technological heroism, it makes sense to look into tech´s Carrier Bag (Ursula LeGuin), into the statistical processes that condense data towards interpretable results, into the social relations that are encoded in data or Continue reading…
The video essay Consumer-off-the-shelf Drones by visual artist Francis Hunger investigates the use of civilian drones as a means of war and propaganda in the current conflict in Ukraine. It is no longer only very expensive military equipment that is being used, but cheap consumer drones that were originally developed for YouTubers, influencers and documentary Continue reading Consumer…
A graphical overview of the current state of critical AI discussion, nodding to Kate Crawford s and Vladan Joler s Atlas of AI. Work in Progress.
Series of expert interviews around Artificial Intelligence and visual data conducted by Francis Hunger for Training the Archive
House of Mirrors – Artificial Intelligence as phantasmcurated by Inke Arns, Francis Hunger and Marie Lechner The exhibition takes the common clichés about AI as an opportunity to talk about issues such as hidden human labor, algorithmic bias/discrimination, the problem of categorization and classification, and our fantasies about AI. »Enter the hall of mirrors, which Continue reading Curation:…
A Fictional Vlog Drama The data proxy, played by Francis Hunger, is a consultant by profession living in a fictional alternative present. Humans are expected to participate in the data production system by creating a minimum monthly amount of data. The data authority, a government agency, regulates the data market. It watches over the data Continue reading The data proxy (2021)
Kybernetik war nicht alles – Die langen Ketten bürokratischer Praktiken im DDR Sozialismus (lecture, 30 min in German) Beyond Cybernetics – The Long Chains Of Bureaucratic Practices In GDR Socialism This lecture unfolds a discussion whether Cybernetics is an appropriate framing for looking at digitalisation history. Although the control of economic processes in the GDR Continue reading Talk:…
Recorded in the frame of Le corps halluciné Et bien, dansez maintenant ! #4 curated by Marie Lechner Full Info here: https://gaite-lyrique.net/en/event/le-corps-hallucine
Single-channel video, sound, 12:26 min. Based on research into statistics and legislation of the GDR from the 1960s to the 1980s, Statistical Hypnagogia discusses the importance of statistics for economic planning and electronic data processing. In the GDR, almost all procedures, institutions, and legal frameworks were based on statistical data. The legislation also established the Continue…