In Noelle Mason’s collaboration with the machine, paintings and sculptures are examined by x-ray, revealing underlying layers to the artworks and creating a tension between the finished creations and their process. In an abbreviated selection of Rashed Haq's Human Trials project, the artist has retrained artificial intelligence to generate portraits of people who do not exist, pointing to the incoherency and instability of algorithmic categorization. The resulting distortions represent incomplete data sets, pointing to the corruption of synthesized intention.

Maija Tammi’s conceptual work, One of Them is a Human is both lovely and unsettling in its depiction of three androids and (possibly) one human. The extent to which we believe in our own fictions is one of the most persistent concerns and one that leaves us feeling vulnerable in the long run. It isn’t difficult to harbor insecurities about incoming tech when we (the noble we) have already proven to be raw data, involuntarily collected by big corporations, sold and sold again to other big corporations.

With the advent of broadly accessible AI, both commercial and fine artists are weighing the costs/benefits and the developing ethics inherent to new tech. This exhibition and its accompanying panel discussion will examine the swirling issues of authorship, bias, privacy, data collection, and the precarious impermanence of reality.