The second work Can’t Help Myself (2016) involved a robotic arm continuously pushing blood-red liquid inside a specific pre-determined area within a glass arena of sorts. monument, Dear (2015) showcased a white silicon chair inside a plexiglass container with an affixed rubber hose that looked and moved like a whip. Resembling the chair US President Abraham Lincoln sits on in the famous Washington, D.C. Image courtesy of The Art Gallery of South Australia.Īt last year’s Venice Biennale themed “May You Live in Interesting Times,” Beijing conceptual artists and husband-and-wife duo Sun Yuan and Peng Yu presented two highly evocative works. Stelarc, Reclining Stickman, 2020, installation view at Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres. as well as our reality now and the future that lies ahead. The work resembles a monster from our nightmares but it is also very much a monster of our making, essentially capturing the nature of A.I. There is also an algorithm in place to move the robotic minimalist tentacles intermittently if no one is controlling it. Comprising pneumatic rubber muscles, exhibition visitors could animate the robot from a control panel. technology, which can increasingly be found in major international art exhibitions throughout the world.Īt this year’s Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art titled “Monster Theatres,” renowned performance artist Stelarc presented Reclining Stickman (2020), a massive nine meter long robotic exoskeleton. For now, we will focus on artworks that use and explore A.I. is really art is still ongoing and merits an entire piece of its own. Although the debate on whether art generated by A.I. technology, such as They Took the Faces from the Accused and the Dead…(SD18)(2019) by Trevor Paglen, should be considered art. We have also moved past the point of contemplating whether art involving A.I. We have reached a point in mainstream discourse where readers do not even require an explainer on A.I. One of the possibilities could very likely be an increasing influx of art that involves and explores Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) The question worth asking is what will art look like in this as yet unfathomable new phase we are moving towards rapidly. Right now, we are living through a multi-faceted disruption of society on a scale we have never really experienced since World War II. have been increasingly featured in exhibitions over the past few years, the current global crisis could just very well be a tipping point for its mainstay relevance in the contemporary art world. While artworks exploring and involving A.I.
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