Appropriate Response / Mario Klingemann (DE)
This project is part of the CyberArts 2020 exhibition at the OK.
In Appropriate Response, Mario Klingemann questions the significance attributed to the written word per se. A participant kneels down at a “confessional,” and an AI system starts to generate a unique sequence of words – a “message” like those conveyed by aphorisms, quotations, or sayings in fortune cookies but which is created only once, i.e., supposedly only for the respective individual. Here the artist plays with the expectations, hopes, and fears that words can evoke in us, even if they have been created by a computer program. The way the interaction is staged deliberately recalls religious rituals and thus summons thoughts of the deeply human search for meaning.
For further information please visit:
ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/prix-interactive-art/
Credit: vog.photo
Appropriate Response / Mario Klingemann (DE)
This project is part of the CyberArts 2020 exhibition at the OK.
In Appropriate Response, Mario Klingemann questions the significance attributed to the written word per se. A participant kneels down at a “confessional,” and an AI system starts to generate a unique sequence of words – a “message” like those conveyed by aphorisms, quotations, or sayings in fortune cookies but which is created only once, i.e., supposedly only for the respective individual. Here the artist plays with the expectations, hopes, and fears that words can evoke in us, even if they have been created by a computer program. The way the interaction is staged deliberately recalls religious rituals and thus summons thoughts of the deeply human search for meaning.
For further information please visit:
ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/prix-interactive-art/
Credit: vog.photo