MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art

Articulating a New World through the Convergence of Expertise from a Diversity of Fields

Eleven individual and one group of highly acclaimed creators in the fields of contemporary art, design, gaming, and AI research will come together to present works created through collaborations with fields such as biology, geology, philosophy, music, dance, and programming. Visitors will be able to experience the relationships between the latest technologies and contemporary art through an exhibition that crosses a diverse range of fields.

Numerous Winners of Art and Media Art Prizes

For Delivery Dancer’s Sphere (2022), Kim Ayoung received the Golden Nica (Grand Prize) in 2023 in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica, one of the top international honors in the world of media art, and the first ACC Future Prize by the National Asian Cultural Center in South Korea in 2024. Lu Yang won the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year Award in 2022, while Hsu Chia-Wei won the Eye Art & Film Prize by Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) in 2024. Finally, for their work Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025 (2023), Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler won the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize at Prix Ars Electronica, which honors artists who have brought innovation to media art.

Shuttling between the Digital and Real Worlds

In addition to the latest digital video works, there will also be many works that physically exist, including two-dimensional and three-dimensional works and installations, making this exhibition an experience that alternates between digital and real spaces.

Audience Participation in Interactive Works, and Indie Game Arcades

Visitors will be able to experience interactive works including the game version of Kim Ayoung’s Delivery Dancer’s Sphere, and Diemut’s El Turco/Living Theater (2024), which challenges visitors to a debate with AI characters. For the indie game (*1) arcade, Taniguchi Akihiko, media artist and advisor of this exhibition, will select easy-to-play games with the theme of “I and Others.” Visitors will have the opportunity to play these games with one another.

*1 Indie games
Games created by individual, or small groups of developers with a strong experimental orientation not found in major games.