Exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Bonn, edited by Barbara J. Scheuermann
Texts (German/English) by Stephan Berg, Barbara J. Scheuermann, Michael Stockhausen
96 p. with 45 colour illustrations
Format 17 x 12 cm, linen cover printed in four colours
29,80 €
The "representative" is tight-lipped: "Don't mention it," she says snappishly, smiles slightly smugly and then remains stubbornly silent. There are now five of these AI-programmed doll bodies, all perfectly modelled on the likeness of their creator Louisa Clement, created in collaboration with a Chinese company that specialises in the production of sex dolls and the Chair of Computational Linguistics at Saarbrücken University. "Louisa", the "representative" created by artist Louisa Clement, is also a little uncanny for precisely this reason: fed with the content of the artist's smartphone and connected to the internet, she does not simply reproduce mechanically prefabricated answers to visitors' questions, but is constantly learning and developing ever more complex characteristics. As part of her exhibition and the book published on the occasion of the Bonn Art Prize, Louisa Clement is now focussing on how comprehensive the possibilities of manipulating human DNA have already become. On the basis of a scholarship in Paris made possible by the art prize, she has developed the almost ten-minute film "off-target-effect", which tells of the (nightmare) dream of the perfect human being in every respect in a mixture of impressive texts, laboratory shots and computer sequences.
Exhibitions:
Kunstmuseum Bonn, 22/2 - 16/6/2024
