"Man and Machine"

This video is an illustration of my idea of greatness. And it reflects, to me, the importance of the adjective "united".

Who still consider this word?
"United" Kingdom.
European "Union".
Is there anything "united" still about them? About us?

Union, nonetheless, is our core nature, as living beings. We are nothing without each other, humans, nature, animals, oxygen, astral bodies... We are all related. Existing together. United.

But only humans are, everyday, forgetting it, destroying things, and creating chaos.

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We live in difficult times. And growing up in the 1980s, 70s, 60s, most of us were badly prepared for this, experiencing, here in Europe I mean, peaceful times.

Of course, it was an illusion, the so-called "Cold War". Now, since 1991, we have been experiencing new wars, but different wars, remote wars, where most casualties are touched in far-away lands. Beautiful lands, sister lands, but that in the West, in dominant former empires, we chose to only use and destroy.

What is left of "Man" in our humanity? Especially now that firms have built up enough robots and machines to replace ourselves? What is still human in Humans?

This is what artists are asking and exploring more than ever.

This is where we are. And why I'm sharing this short video.

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United Visual Artists reflect on human and artificial intelligence in a project inspired by Alan Turing.

Illuminating: Man and Machine

Illuminating: Man and Machine

Alan Turing is the inspiration for a study of human and artificial intelligence by art and design group United Visual Artists

In the third and final episode of our Illuminating series, a trilogy of films showcasing a range of innovative installations by London-based art and design group UVA, co-founder Matt Clark explores the grey area between the natural and the technological.  

“Matt Clark explores the grey area between the natural and the technological”

With a focus on UVA's permanent light installation, Message From the Unseen World—a memorial to pioneering British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing, set under a bridge in London—this episode ultimately explores the deeper enigma of being human.

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Published on 23 Mar 2017

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