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Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness

Saturday 24 Aug Sunday 10 Nov, 2024
Exhibition

Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness is an immersive new media installation that uses the intersection of art and technology to explore modern paths to happiness through a warped world of digital technology and AI.

 ENESS, Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness, 2024, photo by Te-Fan Wang, image courtesy of the artist.

Exhibition
Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness
When
24 Aug – 10 Nov 2024
Admission
Free entry

At the entrance to Modern Guru, visitors navigate the Glitchy Wood, a series of twisted trunks with fractured screen-likeModern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness is an immersive new media installation that uses the intersection of art and technology to explore modern paths to happiness through a warped world of digital technology and AI. patterns. Stick insects hover nearby chanting Modern Guru’s incantations – eyes flickering with ones and zeros as if diseased with the code of their world. Fragile and odd, they guard Modern Guru as he rests against an LED horizon, waiting to dispense reconstituted wisdom generated by AI. What will your experience with the Guru reveal?