If AI Were Cephalopod
If AI Were Cephalopod
Orphan Drift
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2019. Art Book and Exhibition Catalog. 8x9. 22 pages. Full Color.
A catalog, published in conjunction with Orphan Drift’s Telematic exhibition, If AI Were Cephalopod, reflects on the assumptions about the nature of consciousness that inform the development of Artificial Intelligence, and imagining an AI modeled not after human awareness, but rather after the de-centralized, embodied consciousness of the octopus.
Essay by Clark Buckner
About the artist
0rphan Drift has explored the boundaries of machine and human vision, since its inception in London in 1994. The collective as avatar has taken diverse forms through the course of its career, sometimes changing personnel and artistic strategies in accordance with the changing exigencies of the time.