Contemplating what the robots? Their current troubles @technocenos mdas, the development of artificial intelligence, "creativity," neural networks, learning machines, some others. A new evolutionary stage, which includes humanity, first examined by scientists and artists

05 Oct — 11 Nov 2018
DAEMONS IN THE MACHINE
Moscow Museum of modern art
Moscow, Petrovka str, 25

"Demons" the title of the exhibition — is a charade. When-то this refers to supernatural power, the archaic spirits, helpers in the good and dark deeds, and even the perpetrators of the natural phenomena. Later demons became synonymous with demons. And in the end of XX century the Greek word daemon has adopted a system architects and programmers. "Demons," they were called "invisible" system services and background processes, providing "vital functions" of operating systems and programs.

However at this show to divide the classes of demons is not necessary. Here they came in full force: computer demons and the underworld, and even the demons of creativity was invited to her. Work for all is more than enough.

Daemons in the Machine — international exhibition of science-art, organized by Laboratoria Art Fund&Science Foundation and is dedicated to his 10-летию. The project looks really cool, but complicated. Especially for the unprepared viewer. It is not Kuindzhi and not Larionov. The emphasis is not on visual harmony-дисгармонию, and more on the intellectual component. Yes, there are several works that have can not read the text on the legends, and to reach the idea in your mind. For example, to figure out what on the screen by British artist memo Akten displays your reflection, "digested" by the trained neural network. Or to guess that the robots at "the canvas" Australian John McCormack paint abstraction, communicating with each other. Or that biomorphic "spider" Dmitry Kawarga begins emotionally stirring gigantic moustache and to let colorful "spit", and in response to different intellectual stimuli. Another thing is that, relying only on their own perception, are you-то definitely miss. If you do not read the description, it is impossible to guess that at the time of our activity the spider is not just "freaks out" and digest "svezheproseyannuyu" paragraph from the theoretical works of Malevich or fiction of Isaac Asimov. And that all these "emotions" — is a product of a real analysis of the text, the paper which is to "feed" him the viewer.

And so many places. For example, most do not guess that a live chicken in a large project group "Where dogs run" — is not the desire to melt the heart of the viewer, and the biological initiator of computational processes. Their voice is converted into signals which are used as inputs for circuit calculations. Or that Tamagotchi on the farm Dmitry Morozov (:: vtol :: ) feeling good just by caring about them from the "parent" machine.

In General, prepare for the fact that the exhibition will needa lot of reading and a lot of thinking. In 30 years everything will become easier. And while a glimpse into a new world requires increased efforts.

Curator Daemons in the Machine — Daria Parkhomenko. The exhibition was attended by artists memo Akten (UK), Dmitry Kavarga (Russia), Egor Kraft (Russia), creative Association "Where dogs run" (Russia), Jon McCormack (Australia), Nichole Lena (Russia), Thomas Feuerstein (Austria), Justine Aimard (France) and :: vtol :: (Russia). Some of them helped scientists from MIPT, the Kurchatov Institute and Kaspersky Lab.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI. Photo by the author

Sources: mmoma.ru, tvkult ura.ru