Portraits of Our Time

The question is no longer " what can AI do?" but " what’s left of us once it does?

Both Turato’s show and our AI image analysis experiment reveal a deeper anxiety: that even our most human modes of communication – speech, image, story – are being hollowed out by scale and speed.

All this ultra-processing gives rise to a quandary: it was our language training and our feedback that created the vocabularies of the bots. When did the tables turn? What remains of that beautiful pig in the past? AI responses now commonly include AI-generated content: AIs converse with other AIs, LLM-generated content is fed into the training of ... See more

In her review of the show, London-based writer and editor Isabelle Bucklow reflects on how language – like imagery – is no longer simply a vessel for human feeling. In the age of Large Language Models and ChatGPT, language has become increasingly slippery: saturated with noise, drained by repetition and harder than ever to hold onto. It’s being loo... See more