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Artificial Ignorance

Art Installation
A horizontal image of an art piece Artificial ignorance: An old robot covered with plants that grow through it, sitting in front of the laptop preparing to scroll through a meme page. Side view.
A close up of an art piece Artificial ignorance: An old robot covered with plants that grow through it, sitting in front of the laptop preparing to scroll through a meme page. Side view.
A horizontal image of an art piece Artificial ignorance: An old robot covered with plants that grow through it, sitting in front of the laptop preparing to scroll through a meme page. Side view from above.
A close up of an art piece Artificial ignorance: robot finger scrolling through a meme page on a laptop. Side view.

A robot scrolls. Endlessly. Through pages of memes and jokes, at the relentlessness of a machine.
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The question came from another direction. When human work is automated away, what becomes of an automated being with no work to do? The piece suggests the same thing we do. Stare at a screen. Wait for nothing in particular.
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It is a museum object, not a utilitarian one. It does not light a room. It does not solve a problem. It returns one.

Concept, design and development:

Studio laVina x Ken Tsunoda