Solo Exhibition Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand
Logic Paralyzes the Heart explores the entanglements between the body and digital- as well as military-based systems of control. It comprises a wallpaper featuring the faces of “missing people” that have been generated by AI, together with a video narrated by a 61-year-old cyborg reflecting on her life.
Blurring the line between the human and the artificially generated, this multi-media installation complicates the relationship between identity and authenticity. Where the perceived veracity of the human representatives is marked by a double void – their status as “missing” people and the fact that their faces have no ground in reality – their AI counterpart is humanised through her personal account of life as a cyborg. Logic Paralyzes the Heart muddies the distinction between the human and non-human, while simultaneously highlighting the human labour implicated in digital technologies – a fitting commentary in an age of surveillance, Big Tech and the growing sophistication of Artificial Intelligence with large language models such as ChatGPT.
Logic Paralyzes the Heart comes to Te Tuhi from the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – The Milk of Dreams in 2022, where Lynn Hershman Leeson was awarded a special mention from the Jury.
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