Widener Gallery
Located on the ground floor of Austin Arts Center,
Widener Gallery is free and open to public.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Are You Also Divergent, Friend?
An Exhibition by Dennis Delgado
October 6 – December 5, 2025
Reception: Thursday, November 6, 4 – 6 pm
Related Event: Read Aloud 1984, October 6, 1 pm – 1 am – Information and Signup Here
In the midst of increased controversy over AI and its impacts on individuals and society, Are You Also Divergent, Friend? addresses the experience of being a person of color in a new age of automated and algorithmic surveillance. Four projects, including video, tapestries, installation, and collage, explore how technologies of vision shape the discursive formation of the “Other,” and how the colonialist gaze was coded into the surveillance tools of today, revealing a historical presence in the current moment.
Dennis Delgado’s work utilizes technologies of vision, often combining them with existing visual culture to reveal gaps in sight and training data. Each of Delgado’s projects reveals the lingering presence of Eurocentric bias in tools for automating how computers process images.
Ultimately, Are You Also Divergent Friend? asks, can computers be taught to regard every subject/object as equal if it diverges from invisibly established norms? Or has the colonialist gaze been embedded into their software from its inception, pointing their development in a direction that is both generative, cumulative and therefore difficult to reverse?
Free and Open to the Public. Sponsored by the Studio Arts Program.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10 am – 5 pm, and by appointment
For more information contact
Lisa Lynch, [email protected], 860 297 5237 Or
Tracy Quigley, [email protected], 860 297 5232
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