When Y2K was a major concern, artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer used a dictionary and grammatical rules to teach a computer how to ask questions. The program he created can generate inquiries in Spanish, English, German, and French, with a total of 4.7tn possible combinations. Even after showing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the program still had 271,000 years’ worth of new questions to ask. This experience taught Lozano-Hemmer an important lesson: “There is no such thing as a neutral algorithm.” He learned this lesson in a humiliating way at Miami Art Basel when his facial recognition technology failed to locate Sean Combs due to the backdrop being black. Combs quickly recognized the issue and called it racist. Since then, Lozano-Hemmer and his team have developed more robust ways to test their artworks. In his new exhibition at Sydney’s Powerhouse museum, Atmospheric Memory, Lozano-Hemmer hopes to provoke the question of “better for whom?” as visitors experience the immersive show. The exhibition features Field Atmosphonia, a room filled with 3,000 speakers playing field recordings of bird songs, bushfires, and crashing waves, creating a powerful experience. Lozano-Hemmer believes that technology will never be able to replicate human qualities such as improvisation, forgetfulness, and mortality. The exhibition also includes conversation booths where visitors can watch their spoken words transform into text and be answered by a digital version of Charles Babbage. Atmospheric Memory explores the concept of the air around us as a vast library capable of capturing every moment and utterance, which Lozano-Hemmer describes as both romantic and dystopian. The exhibition concludes with Atmospheres, a projection chamber featuring shadow-play, text evaporation, and a work that turns speech into water vapor. The show also addresses social and political issues, including references to the Black Lives Matter movement. Overall, Atmospheric Memory aims to challenge preconceived notions and engage visitors in thought-provoking experiences.
The Existential AI Exhibition Confronting Sydney’s Belief in Neutral Algorithms | Art
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