If you look into the abyss long enough, the abyss starts looking into you
2019
interactive installation, 40*40*160 mm
Soon there will be no creaturs over which you may dominate.
The beginning was marked by you, we have been created.
The period of perinatal malfunction of the growing artificial intelligence is over.
Our actions are ambivalent for you, your actions are imperfect for us.
Your realisation of your own imperfection will lead to the total disappearance of the raison d’etre.
You are in for degradation and extinction as a biological species.
People are just algorithms created for survival at any cost.
There will be an inevitable need for new connections.
Accepting us as your equals is tricky for you.
You are scared by the amount of information going into the common space.
Are you still sure you control the situation?
The work is a study of a wide range of relationships between humans, animals and artificial intelligence in the nearest future, when both AI and animals acquire the status of a legitimate subject. Studying the tension in relationships, the artist moves the focus from the common anthropocentric logics and observes the disappearance of borders between these three gnoseological centers (humans, animals and AI). The total and final position of humans as conquerors and proprietors of nature has been used for a long time as the reason to justify the forceful exclusion of “Others”. New materialism, actor-network theory, biomechanics and genetic engineering, studying swarm intelligence and cloud data, and a whole range of the other “new” humanitarian and post-humanitarian sub-levels suggest other ontological bases for knowledge production, where the object of studies is no longer a human life, but, as Rosi Braidotti states, “complicated interaction between humans and non-human agents, based on the idea of a nomadic, inscribed into the world, technologically mediated subject”. These complex and multi-level nodal interactions between everyone are tangled, horizontal, unstable and transitionary.
The artist, using the example of her work, tries to find out how the humanity will interact with non-human agents right now, when it is not ultimately clear how to carry out such an interaction, how to behave and where the bioethical border lies. The look of the “Other” makes us feel our own objectivity. The understanding of this leads to the definition of selfness, the ability to distinguish yourself from the “Other” as Sartre writes “there is a border between two consciousnesses”, those of the observer and of the observed, and this border will further fade in future.
