10.02.17 – 21.05.17
HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY
In an automated world, will it be time to put humans out to pasture? Are we hurtling together towards a leisure-time utopia or robot-tended human zoos? Will the notion of work transform completely if machines really can do everything better, faster and for longer?
Curators
WILLIAM MYERS - Curator, writer and lead researcher for HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY.
DAMIEN HENRY - Head of innovation for the Google Cultural Institute Lab in Paris. There, he directs a small team of creative coders and organises an artist residency.
AMBER CASE - Cyborg anthropologist, user experience designer and public speaker
Highlights
Exhibits
5000times investigates the extensive, repetitive and even absurd human work that is essential to the creation of smart devices.
A robot responsible for taking care of tombstones by performing the simple yet personal and delicate tasks of cleaning and leaving flowers and stones, as the Jewish custom requires.
Frankie is a robot that interviews people, attempting to ‘learn’ what it means to be human.
This painting is a collaboration between AARON, a computer programme that drew the picture’s contours, and the artist Harold Cohen, who added the colour in oil paint
Embroidery is a millennia-old craft and art form, practiced predominantly by women and passed down from mother to daughter.
This painting is the human translation of an image created using artificial intelligence for The Next Rembrandt project
DoppelGänger is an exploration of a dynamic link between virtual and physical identities through the examination of human-robot kinetic interaction.
Two adapted electronic typewriters communicate with one another autonomously, without the aid of the human hand
Alan Turing’s argument, to paraphrase, was that if an artificial intelligence can demonstrate emotions and feelings, who are we to say that it doesn’t truly feel them?
Antisocial Swarm Robots is a project that explores how humans psychologically perceive the programmed actions of robots by projecting their own meanings and emotional responses onto them.
This project set out to create a painting that Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) might have made, had he lived longer.
The transitional period when computers and robots (or combots, robot-computer hybrids) took charge of the world’s work, financial systems, and culture…
Pinokio is an exploration into the expressive and behavioural potentials of robotic computing.
memememe is a sculpture that celebrates the ambiguities of human/object, user/interface and actor/network relationships.
word.camera is an automatic photo narrator — a camera that instantly generates brief poems from the images it captures