Original artwork description:

This work was created for a contest on the theme of artificial intelligence, for which it was a finalist and selected for the official poster.

In order to imagine a work on the theme of artificial intelligence, I saught inspiration in literature and cinematography: in both, AI almost always ends up identifying in androids, robots that become human clones in every way, even to the point of developing their own consciousness and emotionality.

Hence two scenarios: the one in which androids are enslaved by humans and, at the opposite, the one in which it is humans who risk the apocalypse in a world now dominated by robots.

Personally, I'm not at all hostile to artificial intelligence, however skeptical of its humanization, but I do believe and hope in its controlled and measured use.

When I created the composition, I was thrilled by the silhouette resulting between the two figures, the human one and the android. I definitely wanted to highlight it, and I kept seeing another female silhouette in it. In order for the form itself to stand out, it remained evanescent, almost made of air, easy to break, to be pierced like a balloon: like our fragile, hidden, transparent soul. Headless, in this perhaps absurd confrontation of intelligences, because we are in danger of losing control of our thoughts and will.

Someone has already noted the absence of the shadow on the robot: no matter how perfect AI and robotics may ever be, they will never be human, indeed, precisely because of their perfection. To me it remains something unreal.

And that's why I wanted to emphasize the womb of the (human) woman: life is born there, we can program the desire to have a child, but we cannot program the minds of the children to come, we cannot program ourselves. Unpredictability is our salvation.

Materials used:

oil

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