Maria Munoz Rivera |
Madrid (EFE).- A robot dog analyzes artistic works with artificial intelligence and defecates the corresponding criticisms; it is AICCA (Artifically Intelligent Critical CAnine), a “performative sculpture” by artist Mario Klingemann, which “has a part of spectacle and provocation, like all kinds of art”, he admits.
“The robot recognizes works of art based on what it has observed before, and if it considers them original, it analyzes them from a composition, color and shape point of view”, explained the German artist at Espacio SOLO, where he presented the robot AICCA, a small white dog situated on a platform with wheels.
The artist, who defines this work as a “performative sculpture”, has put the little robot dog to analyze one of the paintings located in the artistic space, the piece “#18”, by David Oliver, which he signs as Grip Face.
After walking and stopping for two minutes in front of the work, the robot ejected a piece of paper from behind, on which was written: “It is collapsed, the body seems to be in a state of perpetual collapse, as if all the joints had been twisted”.
Klingemann has explained that “the intention is that it be expressed in a pretentious vocabulary that imitates the way of speaking of critics” of art.
In this work, the German raises some of the themes that underpin his production: robotics, human behavior and the development of artificial intelligence, doing so this time with humor and putting a debate on art criticism on the table.
A camera in the eyes trained to see pictures
Using a camera trained to see pictures and located in one of its eyes, the robot stores images in the small computer inside and then sends them to the cloud, that is, “generating a ‘prompt”, a word that defines in artificial intelligence the indications to follow prior to carrying out an action, in this case, the analysis.
Although it is the first time that he has incorporated complex robotics in his art, Klingemann is a pioneer in using artificial intelligence in his works. He produced “Memories of Passerby” in 2018 using algorithms, and received the Lumen Prize Gold Award, prior to honorable mention at Ars Electronica in 2020.
Some of his works have been exhibited in museums such as the Pompidou Center or the Barbican. Espacio SOLO, where he has presented this work, agrees with the artist’s philosophy, and this was stated during the presentation by the creative director of the collection, Óscar G. Hormigos, who identifies the space as a “place of support for technologies”.
“From our vision, artificial intelligence is a tool. Right now, it casts doubt on everything and awakens apocalyptic visions but, in the end, photography did not kill painting, nor did cinema kill photography”, he commented on the arrival of artificial intelligence in art.