The Irreplaceable Human– Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI
group show
November 23, 2023 - Avril 1, 2024
With works by more than 60 artists, this large-scale, interdisciplinary exhibition seeks to define the phenomenon of creativity from a broad, humanistic perspective. What are the conditions for creativity in society today? And is there reason to fear that artificial intelligence will take over and surpass human creative abilities?
The exhibition The Irreplaceable Human – Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI aims to create the foundation for a conversation about the role of creativity in our society – and thus also for a discussion about what is really valuable to us. The exhibition presents works by more than 60 artists – with the main emphasis on art from the past 20 years – combined with references to cultural history, science, and literature.
Mathias Ussing Seeberg, curator at Louisiana
For example, as in the Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida’s masterpiece Mebae (Awakening) from 1998. Here we see schoolboys with identical faces sitting in perfect rows. Some have even become the microscopes being used in the teaching, like children turned into instruments.
The exhibition looks not only at the field of culture but also at society in general, revealing how creative processes are crucial in every ‘backwater’ and at every level. In other words, it is not a tribute to art but an investigative story about the value of creativity, which is as vital in the laboratory as in the studio. The aim of the exhibition is to create the foundation for a conversation about the role of creativity in our society.
The exhibition The Irreplaceable Human – Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI is divided into two primary tracks. The first part consists of three chapters essential for understanding how we develop creativity today: Childhood, Work, and Artificial Intelligence.
The second part of the exhibition – divided into two chapters, Time and Cross-pollination – revolves around garnering respect and appreciation for actions and abilities that are often considered a waste of time, redundant, unimportant, bad for business, or just difficult to valuate. Altogether, creativity here emerges as something inherently crucial for our society’s positive development and survival. As a whole, the exhibition argues that we need to take the long view: to prepare the ground beyond what seems immediately lucrative and to dare to believe that something new and valuable will emerge from it. Throughout the exhibition, a number of experts delve into the themes of artificial intelligence, time, work-life, childhood, cross-pollination, and creativity. Below, you can see or re-watch the 6 films from the exhibition.
Watch all 6 filmed interviews here.
ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION
Yuji Agematsu, Trisha Baga, Bertille Bak, Brian Belott, Louisiana Bendolph, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, Andrea Büttner, Nick Cave, Ian Cheng, Chicks on Speed, Tony Cokes, Minder Coleman, Joost Conijn, Tony Conrad, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Agnes Denes, Simon Denny, Rineke Dijkstra, Mia Edelgart, Ryan Gander, Flavia Gandolfo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ben Grosser, Andreas Gursky, Jenny Holzer, Marguerite Humeau, Tetsuya Ishida, Martin Kippenberger, Josh Kline, Agnieszka Kurant, Pope.L., Candice Lin, Jumana Manna, Ana Mendieta, Isamu Noguchi, Henrik Olesen, Roman Opalka, Trevor Paglen, Dawn Parsonage, Martha Pettway, Martha Jane Pettway, Pablo Picasso, Yuri Pattison, Huang Po-Chih, Jon Rafman, Aura Rosenberg, Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Qiu Shihua, Mladen Stilinović, Lily van der Stokker, Tavares Strachan, Pilvi Takala, Emma Talbot, Tourmaline, Lee Wan, Irene Williams, RobotLAB.
The exhibition is supported by A.P. Møller Fonden, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond & Det Obelske Familiefond.
For further information, please visit the website:
https://louisiana.dk/en/exhibition/the-irreplaceable-human/
