2020.11.12
Xin Liu’s “Tear Set” opens today at Yuz Museum as part of “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa”, an exhibition exploring the relationship between humans and machines within the framework of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Opening to the public on November 14, 2020, the exhibition brings together artists and researchers examining the topic from a variety of perspectives including the impact of AI on global technopolitics and on geologies, the absurdity of quantifying human emotion, the dark labor involved in training “human-like” algorithms and the myth-like narratives about AI propagated by the media. The exhibition is curated by Iris Long, the 2018 winner in “Sustainability” of the Hyundai Blue Prize which aims to explain the profound impact of technological change on human consciousness and society.
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Tear Set
artificial tear:purified water, salt, protein (lactoferrin and lysozyme), carboxymethyl cellulose and sugar.
wood, glass, electronics, pumps
2015
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Tear Set is an installation, a crying machine, distributing artificially fabricated tear replicate of the artist’s own tear. The work addresses the tension and struggles of desiring intimacy. Filled with three liters of artificial tear, it invites the audience to touch the replicate composition of the artist’s emotional tears.
The artificial tear is made of purified water, salt, protein (lactoferrin and lysozyme), carboxymethyl cellulose and sugar. It mirrors the concentration of the artist’s biological tear according to a series of chemical analyses. Sharing the materiality of emotion production, the tear is a hybrid of elaborated sentiments and indifferent mass-production. It weaves materiality and narratives into a social experiment where the simulation, expression and records of emotion become the source of affection.
view more: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/L1jXihxFlDyWPIcGLM30tQ
