Blink
2025
Blink is a project about the impending discordance between technological advancement and human evolution. 2025 is the year that major AI generative tools become accessible to the mass public. Videos and images of food around the world cover the walls. At first glance, they look hyper-real, even cliché, imperfect in the transitions. Stare at them long enough, and one would realize they are merely prompts into models that obtain information from large databases humans have accumulated since the printing press was invented 600 years ago. This is merely the first iteration for many enhancements to follow. In the wink of a few years, would we still be able to discern between what is real and what is AI-generated? Or perhaps even reject the reality we have around us, as not being enticing enough?
The series of posters in this project are a collaboration with the artists’ two children who were ten and twelve years old, belonging to Gen Alpha, the first generation to grow up entirely within the 21st millennium. Their commentary and thought processes are unvarnished and scattered around the works. It is not to ascertain whether their opinions are correct. But they belong to a digital native generation that will have to live with this asymmetric balance of technology and humanity in their lifetime.
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