Non-human Subject:
Canit

Year
2024
Type
Installation
Performance
Material
mini mainframe, camera, composite material
Software: Azure, Unity, ChatGPT
Size
65*60*150cm
'Can It' seeks to break the stereotype of the invisibility of artificially created technology by constructing a series of figurative everyday scenarios, extensively exploring scenarios in which mechanised entities and other non-human agents are present in everyday human life, as well as collecting the reactions and attitudes that the public will display.
The work rejects traditional eschatological and utopian narrative frameworks, and instead confronts the realities of how technological hegemony, through dematerialised and abstracted concepts such as "cloud services" and "digitisation", creates misperceptions of technological objects among citizens in the present day.
By constructing a series of figurative everyday scenes, this project attempts to break down this artificially created invisibility.
These scenes are both an archaeological study of contemporary technological society and a preview of future social forms.Citizens will see the real state of development of technology and gain real perceptions, no longer through internet speakers.At the same time thinking about how to redefine their subjectivity in their interaction with technology.
By re-embedding artificial intelligence into specific social contexts, this project reveals how technological hegemony constructs the legitimacy of its domination through the discourse system, explores the correlation between technological invisibility and the mechanism of social control, and analyses the construction of the subjectivity of the general public in technological domination.
