As technology continues to evolve, art also expands its horizon with artists exploring technology-based art. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative launched last year aims to support such pioneering artists. Noam Segal, an LG Electronics associate curator, considers pioneering artists to be those who inspire understandings of how technology shapes and is shaped by society.
For more than six months, visionary painter and programmer Rachel Rossin developed tactile, yet shifting sculptures alongside interactive digital artwork on eight LG Transparent OLED screens to transform the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum rotunda into an otherworldly escape that lasted only one night. The occasion was the Guggenheim's Young Collectors Council Party, an annual…
By Neïl Beloufa. With a text response by Noam Segal. Streaming January 29–February 4. Part of Uncomputables, curated by Agnieszka Kurant for the Artist Cinemas series.
For many, artificial intelligence is a tool, like Photoshop or a paintbrush. For others, it is urgent to put a stop to what they consider a theft and raise a question: what is considered art?
E-flux is very pleased to present Uncomputables: On Alien Intelligences and Cybernetics, an online film program put together by Agnieszka Kurant as the thirteenth edition of Artist Cinemas, a long-term series curated by artists for e-flux Film.