Roboflex - JANK
JANK ( Australia )
JANK completed a robotically automated sculptural installation and video work for their 2 month residency. The work drew from the artists backgrounds to explore thematics of automation and labour:
hustle culture meets human redundancy : no fire, no hire.
this sculptural + video installation explores changing relations to labour, due to accelerating technological innovations of AI and robotics.
two welding screens hang suspended in geometric space, actuated by FESTO robotic pneumatic muscles in a push-pull. the form is evocative of the iterative optimisation processes of searching the non-euclidean parameter space in machine learning / neural network algorithm tuning.
video on latex show ai / robots taking ur job / supplementing labour in unsafe working conditions.
theoretics of conviviality suggest a framework to design and develop tools that work with human and non-human eco-systems. the polarising profit-driven thrust of private industry innovation is not regulated to serve this purpose. where will this burgeoning trajectory lead in 10 years?
materiality, code and brain rot converge in an automated aesthetic.
Supported by CreateSA.