“What an Artificial World” Installation view. Photo: Chulki Hong. ©MMCAThe National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) presents “What an Artificial World” through August 25, at the MMCA Cheongju.
“What an Artificial World” is the first media art exhibition at the MMCA Cheongju. It is organized to examine AI in today’s society and culture and to explore the possibility of symbiosis between technology and humans.
The exhibition examines the meaning of technology in the present day from diverse aspects, including ecology, creation, evolution, and systems, through artworks that deal with AI as their subjects. It asks what we are missing and what we need to focus on in relation to AI. It also proposes to imagine a world that can(not) be predicted by sharing what contemporary artists think about the age of AI.
“What an Artificial World” traces the progress of AI and seeks to reveal the artificial world it constructs. Featuring eight artists and teams, Ayoung Kim, Slitscope, Unmake Lab, Ian Cheng, Jake Elwes, TZUSOO, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, “What an Artificial World” presents controversial keywords surrounding AI today by associating them with artworks on view in the exhibition.
The eight keywords are reorganized into four sections: ‘Future and Non-future,’ ‘Generative Creation and Mutant,’ ‘Evolution and Coevolution,’ and ‘Orbit Dance and Double Vision.’ In addition to the special exhibition gallery of MMCA Cheongju, “What and Artificial World” presents five video works by participating artists on the Media Canvas, outdoor exhibition platform. The works mediate between the museum’s inside and outside, complementing the exhibition in an extended form.
