art & automation: for an apologia of leisure time
<p>Robotics and soft AI are bringing everyday changes both to the work field and to our free time. How does this condition reflect itself on the artistic practice? Can we humans liberate ourselves from our anthropocentric viewpoint and accept the intellective superiority of machines? Will we be able to overcome our fear of automation? In the utopian view of a fully automated production, not only work ethics should be re-thought, but also our certainties about aesthetics.</p>
Authors: Marco Antelmi
Curator: Vincenzo Estremo, Matilde Soligno
Part of: Droste Effect Bulletins