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Beyond the uncanny valley : being human in the age of AI / Claudia Schmuckli ; with Yuk Hui, Janna Keegan, Matteo Pasquinelli, and Tobias Rees ; featuring works of art by Zach Blas [and fourteen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmuckli, Claudia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology in art--Exhibitions.
- Technology in art.
- Humanity in art--Exhibitions.
- Humanity in art.
- Technology--Psychological aspects--Exhibitions.
- Technology.
- Technology--Psychological aspects.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 203 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Distribution:
- Petaluma, CA : Distributed by Cameron + Company, [2020]
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, [2020]
- Summary:
- "In the 1970s, Japanese robotics expert Masahiro Mori published an article that coined and theorized the idea of the "uncanny valley" as a measurable correlation between the human likeness of a machine and people's comfort level with its presence. Criticized as flawed from the moment of its appearance and eventually debunked by empirical studies, Mori's original mapping of the "uncanny valley" may have no scientific grounding, but the term still endures as an apt metaphor for a technologically induced terrain of philosophical, biological, and social uncertainty. With the development of major technologies from the atom bomb to the digital computer and the emergence of cybernetics and artificial intelligence as academic disciplines since the Second World War, this terrain is no longer the sole purview of life-like automatons or robots but is increasingly occupied by developments in machine intelligence, biodigital mergence, and related issues of cloning and other forms of genetic manipulation that have reshaped the debate around the liminality of humanity. As the construction and definitions of subjectives and societies are increasingly organized and shaped by technological events that imitate or improve upon-even if only partially-fundamental functions of our bodies and minds, the question of what it means to be or remain human has been reopened for debate"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Director's foreword / Thomas P. Campbell
- Curator's essay. Automatic writing and statistical montage / Claudia Schmuckli
- Catalogue / Janna Keegan and Claudia Schmuckli
- Essays. Machine/intelligence: on the philosophical stakes of AI today / Tobias Rees
- Machine intelligence and Kantian divides / Yuk Hui
- Three thousand years of algorithmic rituals: the emergence of AI from the computation of space / Matteo Pasquinelli.
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the de Young, San Francisco, from February 22 to October 25, 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781951836009
- 1951836006
- OCLC:
- 1130322137
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