Joseph Bova in Who? (1975) A Dialogue on Accidents, Mistakes, and Left Turns in Automation In collaboration with CODAME’s ART+TECH Festival 2018 #ARTOBOTS, the Living Room Light Exchange (LRLX) will facilitate a dialogue between new media artists, practitioners, theorists, and festival attendees explicating the significance of accidents, mistakes, and so-called ‘left-turns’ in the quest towards automation. How do such missteps influence current thinking on robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence — either technically or societally? Rather than thinking automation as an idealistic trajectory, what lessons can be drawn by thinking automation as a media-specific phenomena that produces its own new terrain for accidents, errors, and power relations? Moreover, what might it mean to focus on “incompleteness,” lacunae, or failures in a domain such as automation, in which unidirectional forward progress is the prevailing narrative? How might artistic practice in particular — and art that leverages AI missteps — function in our public imagination?
Automation Gone Awry
Automation Gone Awry
Automation Gone Awry
Joseph Bova in Who? (1975) A Dialogue on Accidents, Mistakes, and Left Turns in Automation In collaboration with CODAME’s ART+TECH Festival 2018 #ARTOBOTS, the Living Room Light Exchange (LRLX) will facilitate a dialogue between new media artists, practitioners, theorists, and festival attendees explicating the significance of accidents, mistakes, and so-called ‘left-turns’ in the quest towards automation. How do such missteps influence current thinking on robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence — either technically or societally? Rather than thinking automation as an idealistic trajectory, what lessons can be drawn by thinking automation as a media-specific phenomena that produces its own new terrain for accidents, errors, and power relations? Moreover, what might it mean to focus on “incompleteness,” lacunae, or failures in a domain such as automation, in which unidirectional forward progress is the prevailing narrative? How might artistic practice in particular — and art that leverages AI missteps — function in our public imagination?