Two humanoids surrounded by four screens showing swapped faces and machine’s vision. This project explores the ontological dichotomies among us, technology and society by again questioning if machine can think. A brain in the vat craves to be awakened. A tulip – of us, mass media, and technology – withers by our illusion of body awakening. This paragraph was generated by AI after showing the image of the work to AI.
Biography:
Baoyang Chen (CN) (b. 1989) is an artist who works at the intersection of art and technology. He graduated from Columbia University with a master’s degree. His artistic practice originates from his belief that technology is becoming a collaborator of the artist. He also writes about “Technology as Author.” He examines the boundary between us, machine, and beyond, in-between perceptual and embodied space. His research has been accepted by IEEE and IJCAI. He is also on the reviewing committee of EMNLP.
