“Artists and Robots” at The Grand Palais

“Artists and Robots” opened last month at The Grand Palais in Paris, and is on view through July 9.

Including work by 40 artists, ”Artists and Robots” opens a door to an immersive and digital world—an expanded experience that disrupts our ideas of space and time.

Nicolas Schöffer
CYSP 1
1956
250 x 130 x 170 cm
Courtesy of Franck James Marlot
© Photo Aldo Paredes for the Rmn-Grand Palais, 2018
© Adagp, Paris 2018

In a continually changing society, the artists study new advancements, including artificial intelligence, and its potential to revolutionize human life, while offering a word of warning about the potential pitfalls of AI.

Following in the footsteps of pioneers Nicolas Schoffer, Jean Tinguely, and Nam June Paik, creators in every discipline are now working in the fields of digital technology, using tools that are making robots progressively autonomous and humanistic, even.

Jean Tinguely
Méta-Matic n°6
1959
51 x 85 x 48 cm

© Photo Aldo Paredes for the Rmn-Grand Palais, 2018
© Adagp, Paris 2018

These works, by artists like Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Iannis Xenakis, Demian Conrad, and Raquel Kogan, investigate the questions: What can a robot do that an artist cannot ? If a robot has an artificial intelligence, does it have an imagination ?

Leonel Moura
Robot Art
2017
Variable dimensions
© Leonel Moura
photo Rmn-GP – Thomas Granovsky