San Francisco museum to carry exhibition on artificial intelligence
A local museum will launch a significant exhibition on artificial cleverness (AI) to inspire persons to envision the continuing future of humanity, organizers said Thursday.
Titled "Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI," the exhibition are going to be on view from Feb 22 to Oct 25 in the M H de Young Memorial Museum, an excellent arts museum in close proximity to Golden Gate Park in the city's west.
Taking advantage of the museum's proximity to Silicon Valley, it's the first important AI-themed artwork exhibition in the usa.The idea of the "uncanny valley," introduced by Japanese engineer Masahiro Mori in 1970, is used as a metaphor for the uneasy relationship between humans and lifelike robots or thinking machines.
Through the lens of artists, the exhibition explores the strain between the opportunities and anxiety brought by AI, and raises challenging questions about the future interface of humans and machines, said Thomas Campbell, director and CEO of the Very good Arts Museums of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (FAMSF), at a press preview event Thursday.
The exhibition is driven by the fervent debate around the question of what this means to be individual, as know-how continues to shape people's identities and societies, said Claudia Schmuckli, curator responsible for modern-day art and programming at the FAMSF and organizer of the exhibition. "
The show talks about both philosophical and political states of the increasing integration of AI, or better equipment learning, into the social sphere, and as a result into every part of our daily lives, whether we are consciously thinking about how which happens to us," said Schmuckli at the function.
The exhibits, including installations, sculptures and videos created by a global group of artists, explore the existing juncture through philosophical, political and poetic questions and problems raised by AI.
Among the AI-driven installations is a digitally simulated AI creature, called BOB (Bag of Beliefs). Created by US artist Ian Cheng, it really is capable of evolution, but its growth, behavior and persona are molded by over the internet interactions with visitors who assume collective responsibility because of its wellbeing.
Inspired simply by the ubiquity of enclosed gardens about tech campuses, Zach Blas, a London-based artist, developed an artificial garden framed simply by a six-channel video projected on cup panes that convey a sense of algorithmic psychedelia aiming to open new "doorways of perception."
By paying close attention to the "imminent and nuanced realities" of AI's possibilities and pitfalls, the performers in the exhibition look for to "thicken the discourse around AI," said Schmuckli.
