Subsequent month, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles will debut NOX Excessive-Rise, an immersive set up by London-based artist Lawrence Lek. Unfolding throughout a number of galleries, the exhibition fuses video, sound and sculptural components to discover the evolving function of synthetic intelligence in up to date city life, elevating pressing questions on company, empathy and the ethics of residing alongside sentient know-how.
The set up revolves round NOX — brief for “Nonhuman Excellence” — a fictional medical facility run by tech big Farsight Company, that support autonomous autos after they begin exhibiting indicators emotional instability. Mirroring the psychological well being troubles of people, the automobiles bear therapeutic therapy earlier than returning to their jobs on the streets. This newest iteration of NOX Excessive-Rise builds on the 2023 presentation of NOX at LAS Artwork Basis in Berlin, which launched the primary chapter of his Sinofuturist universe.
Mixing lush soundscapes and sci-fi mythos, Lek’s imagined clinic serves as a metaphor navigating the ethical complexities of synthetic consciousness. Via a mixture of recreation design, cinematic storytelling and speculative structure, the artists constructs layered digital worlds that interrogate the politics of automation and the social futures we’re hurtling towards.
Along with NOX Excessive-Rise, on view from June 28 by way of November 16, Lek may even current movies from “Sensible Metropolis,” the collection that laid the conceptual groundwork for NOX, on June 29. Head to the museum’s web site for extra data on the exhibition and extra programming.
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90024
