Hans Ulrich Obrist - MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: ART MEETS AI

In this lecture, Hans Ulrich Obrist considers the future of technology, drawing on a wide range of artistic projects to demonstrate the possibilities that artificial intelligence presents for the creation of new art forms. Through seminal projects, such as Billy Klüver’s ‘Experiments for Art and Technology’ (1966) – which brought artists together with engineers – Obrist highlights the early antecedents of art’s relationship to technology. From Serpentine Galleries’ digital commission of James Bridle to Sondra Perry’s blue screen technology and 3D avatars to Ian Cheng’s sentient artwork, BOB (Bag of Beliefs); to Hito Steyerl’s notion of ‘artificial stupidity’, Obrist proposes artists as significant producers of our future realities. The lecture also addresses the danger that things may be lost, such as the extinction of cultural phenomena and, with reference to Édouard Glissant, the importance of resisting the homogenizing forces of globalisation in our digital age. --- Uno dei p