{"id":4888,"date":"2024-08-31T17:41:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2024-08-31T17:41:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:41:44","slug":"the-alert-and-never-tiring-hans-ulrich-obrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/the-alert-and-never-tiring-hans-ulrich-obrist\/","title":{"rendered":"The alert and never-tiring Hans Ulrich Obrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/curator-hans-ulrich-obrist-artificial-intelligence-serpentine-galleries-london-1234714858\/\">https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/curator-hans-ulrich-obrist-artificial-intelligence-serpentine-galleries-london-1234714858\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As artistic director of Serpentine in London, Hans Ulrich Obrist has championed all kinds of future-facing art. This year, Obrist\u2014whom the New Yorker once called \u201cthe curator who never sleeps\u201d\u2014took that one step further by declaring a \u201cYear of AI\u201d at the lauded institution.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the gallery\u2019s leadership team in 2006, Obrist has worked to turn Serpentine into a sort of laboratory. Notable experimental projects and exhibitions he has brought to the institution include C\u00e9cile B. Evans\u2019s AGNES, commissioned for Serpentine\u2019s website in 2014; Ian Cheng\u2019s \u201csentient artwork\u201d BOB (Bag of Beliefs) and Emissaries, a \u201cvideo game that plays itself,\u201d in 2018; and NEW FICTION, for which KAWS exhibited artworks at Serpentine as well as within the digital world of Fortnite in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>When did you first become interested in AI-related art? How far back does that curiosity go?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about it for quite a while\u2014in a way, back to my student days. When I started as a curator in the early \u201990s, I was inspired by Billy Kl\u00fcver and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). I went to meet Billy, who with Robert Whitman started that amazing project with Bell Laboratories. I was wondering what could be a sort of E.A.T. for our time and how we could bring art and science and technology together. I was also part of the Academy for the Third Millennium and met lots of scientists through that. Actually it was Bruce Sterling, the writer who, alongside William Gibson, was one of the pioneers of cyberpunk, who got me on email in the early \u201990s. At the time not many people had it, and he sent me to cybercafe to open an email account. Then I started to try to find people in the art world who were on email.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to remember that this current wave of AI is not the first&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/curator-hans-ulrich-obrist-artificial-intelligence-serpentine-galleries-london-1234714858\/ As artistic director of Serpentine in London, Hans Ulrich Obrist has championed all kinds of future-facing art. This year, Obrist\u2014whom the New Yorker once called \u201cthe curator who never sleeps\u201d\u2014took that one step further by declaring a \u201cYear of AI\u201d at the lauded institution. 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