Monkey Business, Too : Rise of the Planet of the AIs - Exhibitionmfc-michèle didier | Paris - Brussels - PARIS
Michèle Didier & Specific Object are delighted to present at the gallery:
Monkey Business, Too : Rise of the Planet of the AIs.
Curated by David Platzker, this exhibition explores the missing link and unexpected connections between Action Painting, chimpanzee artists, and artificial intelligence platforms (AI). The project raises fundamental questions about authorship, artistic consciousness, and the value we attribute to it, as well as the impact of new creative tools in contemporary art. An ironic and profound reflection on the ghosts in the machine, whether furry or coded.
Starting from a questioning of his commitment to conceptual art, Platzker turns to Action Painting and in particular to a work entitled One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock, and... asks himself...
Image : Beauty, A Three-Year Old Chimpanzee Busily At Work In Her «Studio» in Cincinnati Zoo, 1961. Silver-gelatin photograph, 41.4 x 27.8 cm. Edition unknownn, unsigned and unnumbered.
Michèle Didier & Specific Object are delighted to present at the gallery:
Monkey Business, Too : Rise of the Planet of the AIs.
Curated by David Platzker, this exhibition explores the missing link and unexpected connections between Action Painting, chimpanzee artists, and artificial intelligence platforms (AI). The project raises fundamental questions about authorship, artistic consciousness, and the value we attribute to it, as well as the impact of new creative tools in contemporary art. An ironic and profound reflection on the ghosts in the machine, whether furry or coded.
Starting from a questioning of his commitment to conceptual art, Platzker turns to Action Painting and in particular to a work entitled One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock, and... asks himself...
Image : Beauty, A Three-Year Old Chimpanzee Busily At Work In Her «Studio» in Cincinnati Zoo, 1961. Silver-gelatin photograph, 41.4 x 27.8 cm. Edition unknownn, unsigned and unnumbered.