Exhibition

Our Friends Electric

1 Jul 2017 – 10 Sep 2017

Event times

Mon - Sat 11:00am - 5:00pm Sunday 12 noon - 5:00pm

Cost of entry

Free

Save Event: Our Friends Electric

I've seen this

People who have saved this event:

close

QUAD

Derby
England, United Kingdom

Event map

Adventures in Robotics, A.I. and other stories.

About

Our Friends Electric is an exhibition in QUAD Gallery featuring artists who explore a range of themes and ideas relating to robots, artificial intelligence (AI), online networks and synthetic biology to highlight our hopes and fears for a present and future increasingly shaped by technological advance.

There has been a glut of recent news reports that obsess with the idea of robots and AI replacing humans in the workplace. We fear apocalyptic scenarios of AI machines rebelling against us; yet advances in robotics, AI and synthetic biological research also point to a bright future free of disease, where we live longer and our lives are made easy.
The artists gathered together for Our Friends Electric draw inspiration from front-line scientific research, yet provide a creative – and emotive – understanding to the continuing moral and ethical questions that surround new and evolving technology. The exhibition features film works; robotic sculptures and automata, and prints/ drawings produced by robots/ AI ‘life-forms’. 

CuratorsToggle

Peter Bonnell

Exhibiting artistsToggle

boredomresearch

Anna Dumitriu & Alex May

Joey Holder

Joey Holder

Stanza

Kim Asendorf & Ole Fach

Alex Pearl

Comments

Have you been to this event? Share your insights and give it a review below.