Catalogue image of pattie beerens’ clay weaving ‘pinks of not knowing’, 2024, which won the People’s Choice Award at the CrossXpollinatioN exhibition in 2024. Image: Supplied.
The past few months have seen some tricky environmental questions enter artists’ circles on the topic of AI.
As two prominent US tech researchers have pointed out, it is now undeniable that, ‘aside [from] the environmental toll of chip manufacturing and supply chains, the training process for a single AI model … can consume thousands of megawatt hours of electricity and emit hundreds of tons of carbon, which is roughly equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of hundreds of households in America’.
ArtsHub's Arts Feature Writer Jo Pickup is based in Perth. An arts writer and manager, she has worked as a journalist and broadcaster for media such as the ABC, RTRFM and The West Australian newspaper, contributing media content and commentary on art, culture and design. She has also worked for arts organisations such as Fremantle Arts Centre, STRUT dance, and the Aboriginal Arts Centre Hub of WA, as well as being a sessional arts lecturer at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
