Aujik

May 6, 2011

Aujik

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2011 Swedish contemporary artist and current Kyoto resident Stefan Larsson presents new works based on his interest in how technology and artificial intelligence relate to emotions, consciousness and nature. AUJIK—also the name of a Shinto cult that worships technology—is a concept Larsson uses as a vehicle for ideas elaborated […]

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2011

A Forest within a Forest, 2010. Courtesy of Art Space Kimura ASK?

Swedish contemporary artist and current Kyoto resident Stefan Larsson presents new works based on his interest in how technology and artificial intelligence relate to emotions, consciousness and nature. AUJIK—also the name of a Shinto cult that worships technology—is a concept Larsson uses as a vehicle for ideas elaborated by futurists Ray Kurzweil and Vernor Vinge about the “technological singularity” and “artificial general intelligence.” The exhibition consists of eerie biomechanical video works, photographs and Larsson’s unusual high-tech mandala paintings.

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