Jake Elwes

Jake Elwes is a London-based artist whose work explores machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using these systems, Elwes investigates poetry, narrative, limitations and ethical implications. The Zizi Project subverts and demystifies cisgender and straight AI systems by incorporating drag performers into datasets, challenging algorithmic bias.
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Elwes studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, from 2013 to 2017, and has exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Somerset House, ZKM Karlsruhe, Today Art Museum, Yuz Museum, Ars Electronica and the Zabludowicz Collection. Elwes’s multidisciplinary practice spans moving-image installation, sound and performance, with a focus on queering datasets and challenging dominant AI systems.

Elwes emphasizes that artificial intelligence lacks intentionality or agency, operating only as a neutral agent within a human framework.

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