Sci-fi Drawings
2017
series of drawings
edition of 3 + 2 AP
10 x 7 inches
"I do drawings every day but I never know what they're of."
- AVA VERSION 9.6 in Ex Machina, 2015
The images presented in Sci-fi Drawings are copies of drawings that originally appeared in popular commercial science fiction films. Within each of the selected films, the drawing was originally created by an artificial intelligence - most often a robot, but sometimes also an operating system.
Within these films the act of drawing performs a variety of roles - from expressing creativity to recording dreams - and serves as a way by which the artificial intelligence presents its proximity to humanity. My act of re-drawing these images becomes a way of bringing these diverse intentions and images under the authorship of a single individual - one that is human, but one that ultimately fails in representing the drawings even remotely as well as his A.I. counterparts.
2017
series of drawings
edition of 3 + 2 AP
10 x 7 inches
"I do drawings every day but I never know what they're of."
- AVA VERSION 9.6 in Ex Machina, 2015
The images presented in Sci-fi Drawings are copies of drawings that originally appeared in popular commercial science fiction films. Within each of the selected films, the drawing was originally created by an artificial intelligence - most often a robot, but sometimes also an operating system.
Within these films the act of drawing performs a variety of roles - from expressing creativity to recording dreams - and serves as a way by which the artificial intelligence presents its proximity to humanity. My act of re-drawing these images becomes a way of bringing these diverse intentions and images under the authorship of a single individual - one that is human, but one that ultimately fails in representing the drawings even remotely as well as his A.I. counterparts.
Her, 2013
I, Robot, 2004
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 2001
Ex Machina, 2014
Enthiran, 2010
Bicentennial Man, 1999
The Machine, 2013
Hot Bot, 2016
Making Mr. Right, 1987
Class of 1999, 1990