The Artifice of Intelligence / Beauty and the Machine

This archival corpus gathers public research notes, lecture materials, seminar descriptions, programme documentation, audiovisual contribution records, and pedagogical texts by Flavia Dzodan produced between 2018 and 2021 across The Artifice of Intelligence, The Coloniality of the Algorithm, Beauty and the Machine, and related teaching and research contexts at the Sandberg Instituut / Gerrit Rietveld Academie. The materials document an intermediate research phase between the 2016–2019 public texts on the coloniality of the algorithm and the later artistic-theoretical framework consolidated in Latent Mournings: Notes on Algorithmic Haunting (2026). The corpus is concerned with algorithmic classification, data extractivism, machine learning, consent, public/private/personal space, border control, simulacra, aesthetics, cognitive capitalism, pandemic biopolitics, platformized valuation, and algorithmic pedagogy. The deposit preserves these works as archival research objects rather than revised academic articles. It includes primary authored texts, lecture-series documentation, public programme and audiovisual contribution records, institutional corroborating documentation, and selected later materials that clarify the subsequent development of the work.