The global conversation about artificial intelligence is being held everywhere - in boardrooms, governmental and military offices, and, of course, online. The cost and impact of AI as it develops is visible and unseen, known and yet to be felt. The goals of the inventors can clash with implementation from end users. No one knows where it’s going to end up, if it’s sustainable, or how it may ultimately alter the human intellect or psyche. The existence of AI prompts countless intellectual and moral questions - while sometimes claiming to, itself, hold all of the answers.
The artists brought together for a new exhibition at MASS MoCA have dedicated their recent practice to investigating AI.
‘Technologies of Relation’ is organized by Director of Curatorial Affairs at MASS MoCA, Susan Cross. She met me in the galleries at MASS MoCA during the final days of installation along with artists featured in the exhibition: Armenian writer, artist, and researcher Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and writer, editor, and archivist Danny Snelson; Pelenakeke Brown, an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersections between disability theory and Sāmoan concepts; and Neema Githere, an artist, curator, and geurilla theorist whose work explores essences of vitality and connection in a time of machine and media detritus.
