Artist Anicka Yi on Creating Her Immortal AI Twin, This Thursday, Live on Zoom
Sign up for this week’s live conversation with Anicka Yi, a trailblazer at the intersection of art and technology.
Artwrld editor-at-large Andrew Goldstein will be hosting a live conversation with the artist Anicka Yi on Zoom this Thursday, October 3rd, at 12:00 PM EST.
RSVP to join the discussion and take part in the community Q&A at the end.
Meet Anicka Yi
The artist Anicka Yi is a human being, but she's not stuck up about it. In fact, she's perhaps most at home collaborating with non-human entities, pushing the boundaries of what art can be and who—or what—can create it.
First, she began working with microbes, famously deploying bacteria to help her make colorfully blooming "paintings" in giant petri dishes. For her 2017 Hugo Boss Prize show at the Guggenheim, she enlisted colonies of ants to activate her works.
More recently, the artist has found a collaborator in AI. In 2021, for her Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern, she used the technology to create an ecosystem of floating robotic “aerobes,” blurring the lines between the organic and the synthetic.
Now, with her new “Emptiness Project,” Yi is taking her experimentation with artificial intelligence a big step further, training it on her years of art-making materials in the hopes of creating an autonomous digital twin that can outlive her—allowing her creative DNA to continue working, and evolving, in a post-human landscape.
So, how should we envision the future of art in world of non-human makers? And how can artists and scientists join forces to create a more flourishing reality? This week, for our fifth live Artwrld conversation, we are pleased to sit down with Anicka Yi to delve into the strange, speculative art world to come.
Podcast Drop
Missed last week's Artwrld conversation with Pace Gallery CEO Marc Glimcher? Here's the podcast version below—and here's a link to last week's newsletter if you want the supplementary materials too.
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