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Annotation Fever! – Exhibition and Workshops
FG2 @ Kinesiska Muren
18.09.25-02.10.25
Klara Källström, Thobias Fäldt, Thomas Sauvin, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
Annotation Fever! is an exhibition and workshop in process, exploring the act of annotation, central to the creation of training datasets in the construction of generative AI models and, arguably, to documentary practices in photography. Drawing from the Beijing Silvermine archive compiled by Thomas Sauvin, alongside photographic works by Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt, the project invites visitors to engage hands-on with images. Within the gallery, annotation as a collective engagement becomes an occasion for shared reflection on how these practices, situated at the contested intersection of labour, classification, and institutional assumptions, anticipate and shape future actions of archives and machines.
For the fourth time, FG2 is taking part in GIBCA Extended. On this occasion, it has relocated to Kinesiska Muren, a new cultural venue in Gothenburg at Skeppsbron 4.
Annotation Fever! forms part of Iconologies of AI, developed and presented by artists Klara Källström, Thobias Fäldt, and Thomas Sauvin, together with media theorist Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan. It is supported by the City of Gothenburg and is a collaboration between the Gothenburg Research Infrastructure for Digital Humanities, the Department of Applied IT, and HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg.