Hyundai Motorstudio’s “AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence,” explores how technology changes loneliness, lust, and love
If Tinder or Tantan were a rabbit hole, and Alice fell into it, she would emerge in a striking netherworld similar to AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence at Beijing’s Hyundai Motorstudio.
Faced with a wall-sized dating profile at the entrance, visitors to the September-to-January exhibition choose between two entrances into the darkened gallery: one framed by a checkmark on the right, and another with “X” for rejection on the left. Mimicking the act of swiping through dating apps, viewers meander through a jarring labyrinth of screens that obfuscate and interrogate the workings of intimacy in the age of artificial intelligence.
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