AI
This NDSM FUSE exhibition by NDSM artists features works that respond to AI. Artists who use AI to create new works. Artists who oppose and artists who connect with it, but also artists who approach it scientifically. Artists influenced by the world of games and SF. Artists who question our experience of reality and who socially critically comment on AI development with humour or, on the contrary, express their concerns about it.
AI
Theme
AI, Artificial Intelligence, is increasingly a part of our lives. The system, which reduces reality to mathematical units by creating and applying algorithms, is used daily in search engines, apps, city planning, financial markets, global logistics, surveillance and in many more applications.
About A.I.
The quest to create a machine that functions like a human being is centuries old. Greek and Chinese myths already told of mechanical man-made beings, an ideal image of man himself. Not only storytellers were fascinated by this phenomenon, but scientists and artists also tried to create life themselves. Leonardo da Vinci pieced together a knight and in the 19th century automatons were made, wind-up birds and dolls that ate, drank and defecated.
But it wasn't until the 20th century with the advent of the computer that the development of AI, a self-thinking machine, began. And not just a machine that removes our physical limitations but also supports and enhances the capabilities of the human brain.
The invention of printing introduced human beings to other ways of thinking and that changed their view of the world. Similarly, AI makes us look with new eyes at our sense of autonomy and the idea of authorship. What is truth and what is reality? And how to think about morality and privacy?
Artists
Curator: Ellen Klijzing
Artists: Tom Bekkers, Vincent Boschma, Simone Boon, Jan Borren, Allard Boterenbrood, Hilbrand Bos, Ania Drupka,
Rika Maja Duevel, Fabien Gruau, Vladimir Hristov , Ossa Kierkegaart, Esther Kin, Nanny Kok, Bas Kosters, Deniz Kurt, DH Mack, Lou Moison, Manuel Pellegrini, Giulia Principe, Cedric La Quieze, Paul Rinzo, Ivano Salonia, Henk Schut, Jan Selen,
Bart-jan Steerenberg, Hilde Tuinstra, Kevin Walker