
The photographer using AI to reconstruct stories lost to censorship
Elise Morton
created: June 25, 2025, 5 p.m. | updated: June 25, 2025, 10:07 p.m.
This is Posthuman Matter: The Map of Nomadizing Reimaginings #3, the latest large-scale installation by photographer and multimedia artist Almagul Menlibayeva.
She engages with AI not as a neutral tool, but as a terrain of power, ideology, and potential transformation.
AI Realism: Qantar 2022 was Menlibayeva’s first project to incorporate AI.
“I consciously engage with these biases, embedding my personal mythologies into the process.”To Menlibayeva, “humanizing AI” doesn’t mean teaching machines to mimic empathy.
In her art, AI becomes a way to recover what state archives, history books, and dominant media refuse to hold.
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