Artificial Ignorance

   In an era where technology develops and gets smarter every minute, robots are made to pursue efficiency. It is predicted that intelligent machines will take over jobs traditionally performed by humans and will leave more than half of the population unemployed within 30 years.

   ‘Artificial Ignorance’ lets you see this from different prospective. In the far future, when even the robots are driven out of the job market by even more efficient robots, what would happen to them? Will they be decommissioned, torn back into pieces? Re-assembled into more advanced robot to get a new life? Crushed into a cube and end up in landfill? Simply gathering dust in a warehouse? Or, perhaps, keeping staring at the computer screen, scrolling down the endless feed of internet? Like we humans do whenever there is a spare time?

   This kinetic sculpture presents a twisted look forward into the future. A robot, endlessly scrolling through web pages full of memes and jokes, with the relentlessness of a machine, is the result of a collaboration between Ken Tsunoda and Polina Baikina.