Art that imagines new ways of living with machines | Anicka Yi

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🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life forms. Her floating “aerobes” inspire us to think about new ways of living with machines -- and to ponder how they could evolve into living creatures. “What if our machines could be more than just our tools, and instead, a new type of companion species?” she asks.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh. You're listening to TED Talks Daily, and today a conceptual artist asks us to think about other ways of living and being by using the natural world as a guide.
0:16.3	In her talk from TED 2022, conceptual artist Anika Yi shows how her creations have raised questions
0:22.4	about the coexistence of humans and machines.
0:28.6	In my work as an artist, I ask a lot of questions about the world around me.
0:34.6	While the problems of the world don't have easy solutions,
0:38.3	I think it's as important to ask the right questions.
0:43.3	Why do our technologies instill so much fear in us?
0:48.3	Why do our lives today feel so alienating
0:51.3	when our technologies are supposed to improve our lives? And why do we feel so alienating when our technologies are supposed to improve our lives
0:56.1	and why do we feel so disconnected
0:59.3	when our inventions are meant
1:02.0	to connect each and every one of us?
1:06.6	My artwork
1:08.1	deals with evolution,
1:10.3	biology, and the senses.
1:13.1	I'm interested in how organisms are composed of different life forms,
1:18.3	such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses,
1:22.5	but also how different chemical and molecular interactions can happen
1:26.9	whenever we simply take a breath.
1:32.0	So I've always found modern technology to be quite limiting
1:36.0	because of how cold and flat it is.
1:41.2	But what if our machines could be more holistic, and what if our machines could be more holistic?
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