Ayman Zedani on Digital Art and Biodiversity at Volvo Studio Milan

Volvo Studio Milano launched 'Visioni diacroniche', a talk series in collaboration with BAM and Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the future Museo dell'Arte Digitale. The first event on March 22, 2023, featured Saudi artist Ayman Zedani (b. 1984), who discussed his practice blending digital media and anti-speciesism. Zedani draws on Donna Haraway's concept of 'making kin' and Reza Negarestani's philosophy to explore human and more-than-human relations, focusing on the Gulf region's biodiversity. He presented 'To the ancestors, human and non human', a digital dialogue with life forms from Gulf ecosystems, creating speculative worlds. Zedani views digital media as a separate realm from the physical, useful for complex narratives. He remains skeptical of AI but sees it as a potential tool. Future talks include Natàlia Trejbalová (May 31), Trevor Paglen (Sept 27), and Nazgol Ansirinia (Nov 15).