Category: Interview
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Sean Edwards: Undo Things Done – Venice Biennale 2019
Sean Edwards discusses growing up in a community with low expectations and expressing the most honest version of self as an artist, through his multi-media Wales in Venice installation Undo Things Done
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Casey Reas – interview: ‘There is an increased understanding that software is central to our lives’
Reas is known as the man who helped to create the open-source programming language Processing and brought coding within the grasp of visual artists. Here, he talks about how his work has changed over the course of his career and…
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Lawrence Lek – interview: ‘AI could become the ultimate content creation mechanism. It could also signal the death of the author’
Lek talks about artificial intelligence taking over from human creativity, and AIDOL, his feature-length film on the subject, now showing at Sadie Coles, London
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Victor Wong – interview: ‘The human is inspired by the machine and the machine is modified by the human’
Artist-inventor Victor Wong talks about his robot artist AI Gemini, how he feels about his invention and how it might develop in the future
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Nye Thompson – interview: ‘The bots are actually the primary audience for the show’
In her project The Seeker, a system of machines looking at images on screen, analysing them and whispering to one other, we humans are merely peripheral intrusions, says Thompson. It’s scary, but exciting
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Angelica Mesiti – interview: ‘I really want to maintain ambiguity and possibility in my work’
Representing the Australian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Angelica Mesiti is showing a multiscreen video installation entitled Assembly, which uses music to explore the power and complexities of collectivity
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Aliza Nisenbaum – interview: ‘I was torn between wanting to be a social worker or a painter’
The Mexican-born, New York-based artist talks about her first UK public commission, a mural at Brixton underground station, which offers an intimate portrayal of Transport for London staff as part of the Art on the Underground series
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Irina Nakhova – interview: ‘I want my works to provoke curiosity’
The Russian artist talks about her latest exhibition, Museum on the Edge, at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and explains why she sees art not as a profession, but rather as her way of being
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Laura Buckley – interview: ‘I enjoy watching the people in the work as much as the work itself’
Buckley talks about her sculpture and video Fata Morgana, currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery, using her work as a catharsis for difficult times – and the pros and cons of the Instagram moment
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Ronny Sen – interview: ‘The work is about the apocalypse in a certain way, where everything will go to the fire and the dust’
Sen talks about photographing the out-of-control fires burning underground in the coal mines of Jharia, India, how he ensures every image has something it reveals and something it hides, and the death of Kolkata
