Credit: Harshit Agrawal, Junichi Yamaoka, Yasuaki Kakehi
Harshit Agrawal (IN), Junichi Yamaoka (JP), Yasuaki Kakehi (JP)
In various everyday tasks we effectively authorize machines to momentarily substitute their own intelligence for our minds, without reflecting on how their authorship influences our thoughts and actions. Through author(rise), the artists investigate how this relationship evolves, when the substitution leaks out of the mental domain and into our physical body. They created a handwriting system where the hand acts as a surrogate for an AI to write out its thoughts, with the tip of the pen is being attracted by a magnet on a plotter below the paper.
A person starts writing, but soon the machine takes control of the pen’s movements. Trained on a large collection of philosophical texts and human writing, the AI moves the magnet to produce a continuation of the writing. How do we feel when our hand “mindlessly” moves on the paper but eventually writes something meaningful, when this aother uthor of our everyday lives rises from beneath the surface onto our fingertips. How do we extend this experience to rethinking the balance of authorship and authorization, as machine intelligence grows?
