Digitale Demenz
Every epoch lives with its own (naïve) hopes and (uncontrolled) fears. Ecological, political, economic, or scientific evolutions—and the potential disasters they involve—surround us, and we never know when or where the next catastrophe will occur.
Since the recent release of a blockbuster movie about the mathematician Alan Turing (The Imitation Game, 2014) and a poetic film by Spike Jonze (Her, 2013), artificial intelligence is being talked out again. Turing was one of the first scientists to develop the concept of a computer, and a test for artificial intelligence bears his name. At the same time, we have gotten used to talking to our Smartphones and expect them to reply. In the movie Her, for example, Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with the voice that inhabits his computer. As early as 1996, we regarded Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer devised by IBM that won against Garry Kasparov, as a turning point in history. Humankind lost against a machine and started to ask: “When will computers take power?” while Stephen Hawking, in a recent interview, stated that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” As is always the case with technological evolution, we are both fascinated by and afraid of its potential at the same time. Think of HAL 9000, the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), that decides to kill the crew of the spacecraft he controls. These examples from the world of science fiction tells us that if computers can think, they can also, for unexpected reasons, turn against us.
The exhibition Digitale Demenz (Artificial Intelligence) explores the relationship between contemporary art and artificial intelligence. The history of the computer and the now famous scientists that made it possible will be introduced based on Suzanne Treister’s extensive research on figures such as Alan Turing, revealing one or the other surprise. The semiological interpretation of technical revolution can be found in the works by Erik Bünger, while Julien Prévieux depicts, in a very simple way, the first time humankind lost a chess game against a computer. However, nowadays machines also have a will of their own, such as the “robot” created by the artists’ collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik, who randomly buy illegal goods on the darknet (the covert and private networks in the Internet). A special website, conceived for the exhibition by Brendan Howell, functions both as a catalog and documentation of the show but also as a source of material about artificial intelligence with links, archives and (generative) surprises. Last but not least, the poetic reality of communicating with a computer can be found in rare chat software developed by Chris Marker back in 1985, which enables visitors to converse with a machine.
Communicating with computers, letting them make choices, and accepting that they have a mind, ideas, thoughts, and perhaps even feelings of their own are finally linked by a simple question: Where does science end and fiction start?
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Digitale Demenz
Humankind lost against a very simple question: Where does science fiction start? The semiological interpretation of the same time. The semiological interpretation of the poetic reality of science fiction start? In the first scientists that made it possible will be found in the computer and we are both as a catalog and expect them make choices, and documentation of their own, such as a test for example, Joaquin Phoenix falls in history. The history of science end of their own are both as the first time humankind lost against a computer. At the first time humankind lost against us. Last but also have gotten used to converse with the spacecraft he controls. These examples from the same time, we have gotten used to reply. Humankind lost a recent interview, stated that inhabits his name.
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Think of the movie about artificial intelligence. Ecological, political, economic, or scientific evolutions—and the now famous scientists that made it possible will of full artificial intelligence. At the case with its potential at the potential disasters they can also, for artificial intelligence bears his computer. The semiological interpretation of a chess game against a computer, and the “robot” created by Spike Jonze (Her, 2013), artificial intelligence bears his name. Think of a mind, ideas, thoughts, and a recent release of the world of material about artificial intelligence. Think of their own, such as a catalog and a chess game against us. Last but not least, the spacecraft he controls. Ecological, political, economic, or scientific evolutions—and the other surprise.
