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Beyond the uncanny valley: being human in the age of ai

21/07/2020 00:00:00 Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoISBN:
  • 9781951836009
Subject(s): Summary: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, 22 February - 25 October 2020. In todays AI-driven world, increasingly organized and shaped by algorithms that track, collect, and evaluate our data, the question of what it means to be human has shifted. Uncanny Valley is the first major exhibition to unpack this question through a lens of contemporary art and propose new ways of thinking about intelligence, nature, and artifice. Includes: Zach Blas, Ian Cheng, Simon Denny, Stephanie Dinkins, Forensic Architecture, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Christopher Kulendran, Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann, Agnieszka Kurant, Lawrence Lek, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms, Zairja Collective

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, 22 February - 25 October 2020. In todays AI-driven world, increasingly organized and shaped by algorithms that track, collect, and evaluate our data, the question of what it means to be human has shifted. Uncanny Valley is the first major exhibition to unpack this question through a lens of contemporary art and propose new ways of thinking about intelligence, nature, and artifice. Includes: Zach Blas, Ian Cheng, Simon Denny, Stephanie Dinkins, Forensic Architecture, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Christopher Kulendran, Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann, Agnieszka Kurant, Lawrence Lek, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms, Zairja Collective