During the past few months, artist Jerry Galle undertook a residency in collaboration with Flanders Make, facilitated by GLUON.
Project description
Through the project Checkin’ Each Other Out, Jerry Galle aims to equip robots with a multiplicity of personalities, for a more organic human—robot interaction. This diversity may be more in line with how humans experience themselves, i.e. as a multitude of personalities that get the upper hand depending on certain situations. The artist aims to use state-of-the art expertise in the field of collaborative robotics. Therefore Galle will collaborate with Flanders Make.This agency was set up by the Flemish Government to guide the Flemish manufacturing industry in the integration of digital techniques, known as ‘industry 4.0’. With offices in Leuven and Kortrijk, Flanders Make offers hardware and software infrastructure, as well as scientific expertise in the field of collaborative robotics.
In the spring of 2024 we will show the outcomes of Galle’s residency at GLUON, opening up several questions surrounding our evolving engagement with robotics and artificial intelligence such as: What is the importance of embodiment in human cognition? Can we truly separate intelligence from the body? How can we integrate non-human intelligence in the design and interaction with technologies? And what does this all mean for the future of work?
In tandem with the exhibition’s opening, we aim to organise a thought-provoking evening featuring a lineup of speakers at the intersection of art, science and technology. This event aims to provide further insight into the complexities surrounding human-robot interactions, bridging the realms of art, philosophy, and technology — stay tuned!
About the artist
Jerry Galle explores idiosyncratic uses of image and language that are co-created with algorithms. The mediation of the world through ever profiling, falsifying and quantifying images and texts that are both bot and human generated, have had a dramatic impact on conceptions of art, humour, absurdity, politics, economics and language itself. His practice critically reflects this mediation using websites, drawings, electronics and manipulated texts, presented both offline and in the public space of the Internet.
