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This week Megan Dunn looks at the first ‘humanoid’ robot artist Ai-Da, who is about to present her exhibition, Leaping into the Metaverse at the Venice Biennale. Leading to the question, does art belong exclusively to human consciousness?
In the art world, Megan says, there is a shift towards the ‘post-human’. Artists like Pierre Huyghe are creating multi-disciplinary works which include intelligent lifeforms and other forms of consciousness beyond the human.
Can a robot – with no consciousness, let alone a subconscious - have true agency as an artist?
Megan Dunn is an art writer and author of books Tinderbox and Things I Learned at Art School.
