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In the exhibition UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You, the MAK is exploring one of the most important subjects of the coming decades, one that has significant consequences for all areas of our lives: artificial intelligence (AI).
29.5.2019—6.10.2019
Upper Exhibition Hall
In order to understand, help shape, and sensibly implement the potentials of artificial intelligence and the associated technologies, we need a new cultural sensibility, and this exhibition seeks to stimulate that. Installations in various media by 18 international artists and designers spread out in a generous parcours enhanced by examples and scenarios from current applications of AI.
It is exactly 100 years ago that Sigmund Freud wrote “The Uncanny.” The Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori coined the term “uncanny valley” for machines that are so humanoid that we shudder. It is therefore unsurprising that machines that can learn, think, and act seem uncanny. AIs are increasingly part of our lives, our social connections, our political and economic activity. This raises the question what sort of a living creature the omnipresent AI already is and will become.
In society, politics, business, ecology—in short, as a civilization—we have to develop new values together with our machines. UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You opens up a number of perspectives on an area that is developing rapidly but is, at the same time, increasingly difficult to understand. The exhibition centers on questions of culture and technology, being human, power, control, and orientation in the uncanny valley of artificial intelligence.
It is exactly 100 years ago that Sigmund Freud wrote “The Uncanny.” The Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori coined the term “uncanny valley” for machines that are so humanoid that we shudder. It is therefore unsurprising that machines that can learn, think, and act seem uncanny. AIs are increasingly part of our lives, our social connections, our political and economic activity. This raises the question what sort of a living creature the omnipresent AI already is and will become.
In society, politics, business, ecology—in short, as a civilization—we have to develop new values together with our machines. UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You opens up a number of perspectives on an area that is developing rapidly but is, at the same time, increasingly difficult to understand. The exhibition centers on questions of culture and technology, being human, power, control, and orientation in the uncanny valley of artificial intelligence.
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Artists, designers, and researchers
Rachel Ara, automato.farm, Mladen Bizumic, Tega Brain, Julian Oliver and Bengt Sjölén, James Bridle, Giulia Bruno und Armin Linke in cooperation with Luc Steels, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Simon Denny, Heather Dewey-Hagborg und Chelsea E. Manning, Constant Dullaart, Karen Hao, Lynn Hershman Leeson, David Link, Jonas Lund, Trevor Paglen, Matteo Pasquinelli, Philipp Schmitt und Steffen Weiss, Superflux, Jorinde Voigt.Curators
Paul Feigelfeld, Media Theorist, and Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design CollectionExhibition design
Some Place Studio, Vienna/New York (Bika Rebek, Daniel Prost)Graphic and Interaction Design
Process Studio (Martin Grödl, Moritz Resl)
Scientific consulting
Christoph Engemann
An exhibition in context of the Vienna Biennale for Change 2019
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Media
UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You
Process Studio, AImoji, 2019
Emojis generated by artificial intelligence
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Process Studio, AImoji, 2019
Emojis generated by artificial intelligence
© Process Studio
Exhibition View
UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You
Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Chelsea E. Manning, Probably Chelsea, 2017
MAK-Exhibition Hall
© Aslan Kudrnofsky/MAK
UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You
Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Chelsea E. Manning, Probably Chelsea, 2017
MAK-Exhibition Hall
© Aslan Kudrnofsky/MAK
Exhibition View
UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You
Jorinde Voigt, Immersive Integral Turn I – VIII, 2019
India ink, gold leaf, pastel, oil pastel, graphite on paper
MAK-Exhibition Hall
©Aslan Kudrnofsky/MAK
UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You
Jorinde Voigt, Immersive Integral Turn I – VIII, 2019
India ink, gold leaf, pastel, oil pastel, graphite on paper
MAK-Exhibition Hall
©Aslan Kudrnofsky/MAK
Exhibition View
UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You
Rachel Ara, This Much I’m Worth (The self-evaluating artwork), 2017
MAK-Exhibition Hall
© Aslan Kudrnofsky/MAK
UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You
Rachel Ara, This Much I’m Worth (The self-evaluating artwork), 2017
MAK-Exhibition Hall
© Aslan Kudrnofsky/MAK
Exhibition View
UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You
from left to right: Trevor Paglen, Porn (Corpus: The Humans) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination, 2017;
Trevor Paglen, A man (Corpus: The Humans) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination, 2017;
Trevor Paglen, Vampire (Corpus: Monsters of Capitalism) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination, 2017
Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
MAK-Exhibition Hall
© Aslan Kudrnofsky/MAK
UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You
from left to right: Trevor Paglen, Porn (Corpus: The Humans) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination, 2017;
Trevor Paglen, A man (Corpus: The Humans) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination, 2017;
Trevor Paglen, Vampire (Corpus: Monsters of Capitalism) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination, 2017
Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
MAK-Exhibition Hall
© Aslan Kudrnofsky/MAK
UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You
automato.farm, BIY Believe It Yourself, 2019
PCB boards
Commissioned by the MAK for the VIENNA BIENNALE 2019
© automato.farm
automato.farm, BIY Believe It Yourself, 2019
PCB boards
Commissioned by the MAK for the VIENNA BIENNALE 2019
© automato.farm