Katrien Jacobs

Katrien Jacobs is an artist-scholar and associate professor who works at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ghent University. Jacobs has lectured and published widely about sexuality and gender representations in and around digital media and AI, contemporary arts and online activism. She has also produced documentaries and performance art pieces alongside her academic and ethnographic fieldwork.

Sparkling Deepfakes on the Metabolic Chair is a video installation that will invite gallery visitors to sit down in a metabolic chair, a space for digesting artworks at one’s own pace, while watching a video about redeeming deepfakes. The background is a concern with how deepfake technology is increasingly being hijacked as misinformation and sex-phobic misogynist hate-speech. During the residency period, Jacobs will prepare the artwork and collaborate with other participants in watching and commenting on her work-in-progress on a dedicated chair.