๐ Today is your last chance to visit the online exhibition The
@_Second_Guess: Body Anxiety in the Age of AI at HeK Basel.
The 10th anniversary of the influential online exhibition Body Anxiety, curated in 2015 by Leah Schrager and Jennifer Chan, serves as an occasion for Margaret Murphy, Leah Schrager, and myself to explore body anxiety in the age of AI.
In 2025, the exhibition looks back at the history of the relationship between humans and technology, as well as the beginnings of what is known as selfie feminism or networked feminism. It also shows how the fight against censorship on social media has evolved into a fight against deepfakes in the age of AI.
Participating artists: Addie Wagenknecht (
@wheresaddie), Ana Marรญa Caballero (
@CaballeroAnaMa) &
@MWiederrecht, Anika Meier,
@nnHirsch, Ann Hirsch & Maya Man (
@mayaonthenet), Anna Ehrenstein, Arvida Bystrรถm, Avery Gia Sophie Schramm, Faith 'Aya' Umoh, Bianca Kennedy,
@CarlaGannis,
@YesClaudiaHart,
@ConnieBakshi,
@EmiKusano,
@Hi_Flynn (by Malpractice),
@GretchenAndrew, Gretta Louw,
@KikaNicolela, Kira
@Xonorika,
@laurenleemack,
@LeahSchrager, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Margaret Murphy (
@margaretonline), Marisa Olson,
@martina_menegon, Maya Man, Mel E. Logan & lizvlx (UBERMORGEN), Monika Fleischmann,
@nancybursonart, Nicole Ruggiero, OONA (
@madebyoona),
@operator_______ & Anika Meier, Remi Koebel, Sarah Friend (
@isthisanart_),
@Sougwen Chung, and UBERMORGEN.
โจ First and foremost, thank you to the artists and my co-curators! And thank you to everyone who made this exhibition what it is and made it possible: Sabine Himmelsbach and her HeK team, Aleksandra Art (
@aljaparis) and her Tezos team,
@KikaNicolela and her
@objktcom team, Liz Haas (UBERMORGEN) and her team at die Angewandte!
This exhibition was also an experiment. We wanted to see if it was possible to do an online exhibition as a first step, and then add NFTs as a second step. I think it is possible. With the NFT sales, we will fund the production of the book about the exhibition. Thank you to all the collectors for their enthusiasm and support!