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INTELLIGENT FLOATING MACHINES INSPIRED BY NATURE

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Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka
Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life
forms. Her floating "aerobes" inspire us to think about new ways of living with
machines -- and to ponder how they could evolve into living creatures. "What if
our machines could be more than just our tools, and instead, a new type of
companion species?" she asks.


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Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka
Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life
forms. Her floating "aerobes" inspire us to think about new ways of living with
machines -- and to ponder how they could evolve into living creatures. "What if
our machines could be more than just our tools, and instead, a new type of
companion species?" she asks.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to
feature it for you.


ABOUT THE SPEAKER


Anicka Yi
Conceptual artist
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Anicka Yi is interested in the intersection of technology and biology. She uses
innovative materials to break down distinctions between plants, animals and
machines -- and question what it means to be human.


ANICKA YI'S RESOURCE LIST


Mark Godfrey, Carly Whitefield, Elvia Wilk and Anicka Yi | Tate, 2021 | Book

HYUNDAI COMMISSION 2021: ANICKA YI

The In Love With The World 2021 exhibition catalog features a captivating short
story by Elvia Wilk that reimagines facets of the endeavor in a speculative
future space, as well as remarkable photographs by wildlife photographer Will
Burrard-Lucas. Made in close collaboration with the artist, and including a
survey of previous work, this unique publication provides a genuine insight into
Yi's past and present creative production.

Fiammetta Griccioli and Vicente Todolí with Remina Greenfield (eds.) | Marsilio
Editori, 2022 | Book

ANICKA YI: METASPORE

Published in conjunction with her survey exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca,
Metaspore is the most extended monograph ever dedicated to Anicka Yi. The volume
presents critical essays by art historian Giovanni Aloi and professor of English
literature and gender studies Rachel Lee; a conversation between Anicka Yi and
biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake; and two contributions by the exhibition
curators. Also included is a glossary of Yi's most significant fictional,
scientific and philosophical references.

John Brockman | Penguin Books, 2020 | Book

POSSIBLE MINDS: TWENTY-FIVE WAYS OF LOOKING AT AI

In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, editor
John Brockman gathers a small but influential community of thinkers to share
their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us.

Jason Edward Lewis, Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis and Suzanne Kite | MIT
Press, 2018 | Article

"MAKING KIN WITH THE MACHINES"

This essay brings Indigenous epistemologies to bear on the "AI question" and
asks how machines might exist in kinship with humans. The authors argue that
Indigenous epistemologies are better equipped to respectfully accommodate the
non-humans who share our world.

Ben Vickers and Kenric McDowell (eds.) | Ignota Books, 2021 | Book

ATLAS OF ANOMALOUS AI

The Atlas of Anomalous AI maps our complex relationship to intelligence, from
ancient to emerging systems of knowledge. A wildly associative constellation of
ideas, stories, artworks and historical materials, the Atlas approaches concepts
of AI from an imaginative, artistic and revitalizing perspective.

Caroline A. Jones | Edge, 2019 | Watch

"QUESTIONING THE CRANIAL PARADIGM"

In this talk by art historian Caroline A. Jones, given as part of MIT's Possible
Minds Conference, Jones questions the common notion that the brain is the major
intelligence center of the body. Referencing the gut-brain axis and the immune
system, Jones presents ideas of non-conscious and distributed intelligence that
may exist in the body outside of the central nervous system.

Caroline A. Jones | MIT, 2019 | Article

"IN PRAISE OF WETWARE"

In this essay, part of the Ethics, Computing and AI series at MIT, Caroline A.
Jones warns against using sophisticated computation as a metaphor for
intelligence. She argues that our current technologies do not come close to
encompassing the full complexity of fluid, distributed and symbiotic
intelligence systems that we observe in our own bodies and the environment.
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