If AI Were Cephalopod
If AI Were Cephalopod
Orphan Drift
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If AI Were Cephalopod, Orphan Drift (Ranu Mukherjee and Maggie Roberts). 2019. Paperback. 8x9. 22 pages. Full Color. Staple Bound. With essays by curator Clark Buckner and the artist(s). Telematic Media Arts. $20.00
An artist book, published in conjunction with Orphan Drift’s Telematic exhibition, If AI Were Cephalopod, reflecting on the assumptions about the nature of consciousness that inform the development of Artificial Intelligence, and imagining an AI modeled not after the human mind, but rather after the de-centralized, embodied consciousness of the octopus.
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.