The articles over the next two months will investigate just how deeply AI is already ingrained within our daily lives, from our language-translating devices, to the art we look at, to even the blog posts we read.

Result #1

The articles over the next two months will investigate just how deeply AI is already ingrained within our daily lives, from our language-translating devices, to the art we look at, to even the blog posts we read. . . . As their title suggests, We have just become a nation in a certain sense, and we are about to be further augmented by a very powerful new technological tool, which is called the artificial intelligence. This new technology is intended to create a new racial, gender, and economic majority. Meanwhile, the artist Vik Muniz, who runs the gallery, has devised a tool that can decipher these alien communications. Muniz has created a series of freeware programs that play on the power of computers and other digital devices to extract information from the human psyche. One of the most interesting pieces was a piece entitled The Matrix, 2006, in which Muniz turns a symbolic matrix of images and symbols into a kind of political projection: The matrix is a grid of four triangular symbols of two heart shapes. They are mounted on a wooden screen that is divided into four sections, and the viewer is invited to enter the matrix to see what happens when a digital image of one of these heart shapes is projected onto the grid of the matrix. The heart shapes look like eggshells and their position on the grid is analogous to the position of the grid on the canvas.In addition to the piece and its installation, Muniz presented a video called Artificial Intelligence, 2006, in which the artist has transformed the image of a human hand into a robotic hand. This gesture is carried out in a series of physical exercises that make the artist perform repetitive actions. The artist is shown performing these actions with a doll. The images of the hands are shown against a black background, so that the hands appear to move in a certain manner. The action that the artist performed with the doll was an almost pathological imitation of the movements of the hands. The viewers attention was drawn to the fact that the hands are machines and not human hands. The video is a reflection on the current state of artificial intelligence, which is designed to assess everything in the world and make judgments.

Result #2

The articles over the next two months will investigate just how deeply AI is already ingrained within our daily lives, from our language-translating devices, to the art we look at, to even the blog posts we read. The exhibition will also take a long look at how we move through the machine age. The concept of the singularity of human intelligence remains, however, open to interpretation.While the work of artists such as Harry Dodge, Mike Kelley, and Kelly Shepherd has been more widely considered in the past, this exhibition, with its focus on machines as artifacts and the nature of human cognition, brings together works by well-known artists such as Michael Kennierson, Angela de la Vega, and John Giorno. The inclusion of paintings by both Kelley and de la Vega, for instance, suggests the possibility of seeing the work of both artists as both representations of the same individual and as a homogeneous whole. But Kelley and de la Vega work in a world of multiple, constantly shifting relationships of power and control. In contrast, Giorno has taken an entirely different approach. Through his paintings and drawings, he explores the effects of the displacement of visual information by other, often unrecognizable information. In a sense, his work is a study of what happens when information is too diffuse to be understood in the usual sense. In other words, the artist is investigating the interactions between and among different things, and the result is a myriad of works that collectively offer a profound meditation on the forces that create the world.It is in this sense that Kelley and de la Vega emerge as perhaps the most important artists in this exhibition. As the title of their work suggests, these artists are concerned with the information age, with the transformation of the real world into a virtual, that is, the disappearance of one thing after another. In Kelley and de la Vega we encounter an amalgam of images, the representation of which has been totally displaced by digital technology. Kelley and de la Vega present themselves as "computers in their skins, as if they were being replaced by a completely different species of computer.

Result #3

The articles over the next two months will investigate just how deeply AI is already ingrained within our daily lives, from our language-translating devices, to the art we look at, to even the blog posts we read. The work of two artists, two writers, and two architects will be made into an immersive installation. It is an environment that actively manipulates the viewers understanding of the world, the capacity for perceiving spatial relationships and interdependencies, and the systems of interaction that define it.The exhibition, curated by Claire Callahan, features two groups of works: one, from the 1970s, is titled The Universe of Communication, 1972–74; the other, The Universe of Information, is a multipart project that will be completed in 2015. The shows title is taken from an equation in George Orwells 1984, in which the word insane equals the word beyond, and the number of people insane equals the number of people in the world. These works explore the possibilities for curating the universe of communication, and are the products of a playful, cross-disciplinary effort that includes not only the artists and writers on the project, but also the curators of The International Center of the Arts in Hong Kong, the authors and editors of the excellent book on the project, and two of the main curators of the international exhibition catalogue. The installation also includes computer-generated images of the ICA and its archives, which the group hopes to expand into an interactive museum. The artists involved in the project are also members of the University of Hong Kongs Graduate School of Arts and Design. The curator is Tung Wing-kwong, and the artist is Wong Chieh-kin.Wong, a longtime ally of the Occupy Central movement, is a former student of Charles Saatchirols, and the exhibition begins with a project from this point on. He hopes to use the information on the ICA to frame the exhibition in Hong Kongs vibrant art scene. In order to do this, Wong and his team have sought to identify as many artists as possible, and to use this data to provide information about the state of Hong Kongs art.

Result #4

Will we be able to foresee, with the help of art, the consequences of its use? This is the question we must all ask.

Result #5

And we shall see how much they think.