{"id":65140,"date":"2021-09-07T19:15:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T23:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/?p=65140"},"modified":"2021-09-07T19:17:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T23:17:19","slug":"lo-my-inspiration-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/2021\/09\/07\/lo-my-inspiration-33\/","title":{"rendered":"LO: My Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s “Can’t Help Myself,” which was an installation at the Guggenheim, a robotic arm restlessly tries to clean up red liquid on the floor, to no avail. The robot knows 32 different movements. It is trapped within a transparent “cage,” where the viscous liquid continuously triggers the robot’s sensors to shovel and scrape. The resulting, never-ending, blood-like splatters evoke violence at border zones and the consequences of authoritarianism; as the Guggenheim states<\/a>. The real meaning is up to interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really admire the uniqueness of this piece. Typically, when someone creates an AI, it is for a specific purpose; to have self-driving cars, to mimic human capabilities, to push the limits of what AI can do. I appreciate that “Can’t Help Myself” is purely an artistic work. With so many different movements as it frantically scrapes, it almost looks like a panicked choreography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\" — “Can’t Help Myself,” 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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