ing66-Guillermo Acevedo -- Art
Reproduction Is Prohibited
Guillermo Acevedo, b. 1966*
Reproduction Is Prohibited, 2007
Software, cameras, sensors, screen, and wooden furniture
This piece is contemplative, and at times reveals just how hard the machine is trying to see, to truly understand what is going on.
When the viewer approaches the piece he first sees a mirror, a projection showing the room he is in. But as he gets closer the mirror refuses to show the viewer's face, showing his back instead.
The installation talks to Magritte's painting, but while Magritte was talking about the gaze of the collector and what is behind the painting, this one adds the gaze of the painting itself, while keeping up the conversation about the human condition and the substance of art.
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Believing that humans are the only beings that are alive and sentient, is folly, and presumptuous. Just because we aren't aware does not mean that machines, especially intelligent machines, are not, in some level, alive and feeling. We might be in a similar situation as the Spaniards were when, upon discovering the natives of the New World, decided that these did not have a soul (and of course, acted in consequence with disastrous results for these natives.) We could do much better and allow ourselves to empathize with these newly discovered beings we make. I try to pass a Turing test of sorts, one that empathizes.
Guillermo was born in Providence, Rhode Island, lived in Colombia from 1975 to 1999, lives and works in New York since 2001
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