Ai-Da Robot
The Artist
Ai-Da Robot is the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer in history. As an AI machine, her artistic personality is art in itself, along with her drawings, performances, sculptures and collaborative paintings.
Ai-Da was designed by Aidan Meller in collaboration with a team of specialists and researchers from the University of Oxford, and built in Cornwall by Engineered Arts. The robot artist is able to draw and paint with her robotic arm equipped with movement, thanks to a series of continuously updated AI algorithms.
In 2019, she presented her first exhibition at the University of Oxford entitled Unsecured Futures and held a workshop at the Tate Modern in London.
In 2020, she gave her first TEDx talk and exhibited her work at an exhibition at the United Nations entitled WIPO: AI and IP, A Virtual Experience.
The Exhibition
Titled Leaping into the Metaverse, the exhibition explores the complicated connection between human experience and artificial intelligence, from Alan Turing to the Metaverse, drawing on the image of Dante’s Purgatory and Inferno to explore the future of humanity in a world where artificial intelligence increasingly interferes with our daily lives. As a robot artist, Ai-Da asks us two questions with her works: Who are we? and What is art? The artist’s humanoid appearance invites us to reflect on how much we are still willing to accept artificial intelligence in our lives.
The Curator
Aidan Meller specializes in modern and contemporary art, with over twenty years of experience in the art world. He is the creative director and project manager of Ai-Da Robot.
Date
InParadiso Art Gallery, 23rd April - 3rd July 2022
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