Intelligent floating machines inspired by nature | Anicka Yi

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🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

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
0:09.7	us to think about other ways of living and being by using the natural world as a guide.
0:16.5	In her talk from Ted 2022, conceptual artist Annika Yee shows how her creations have
0:21.5	raised questions about the coexistence of humans and machines.
0:29.0	The portrait Ted Talks Daily comes from Airbnb.
0:33.0	When you're staying at an Airbnb, you might be like me wondering, could my place be an
0:37.6	Airbnb and if it could, what could it earn?
0:41.4	I think about this all the time.
0:43.1	Sub, whose extra room in London was storing furniture until his mom had the idea to start
0:47.9	Airbnbing it, now that extra room helps pay the mortgage.
0:53.4	And know what your place could be earning at Airbnb.co.uk slash host.
1:01.8	In my work as an artist, I ask a lot of questions about the world around me.
1:08.2	While the problems of the world don't have easy solutions, I think it's as important
1:13.5	to ask the right questions.
1:17.0	Why do our technologies instill so much fear in us?
1:21.9	Why do our lives today feel so alienating when our technologies are supposed to improve
1:28.1	our lives?
1:30.2	And why do we feel so disconnected when our inventions are meant to connect each and
1:36.8	every one of us?
1:40.0	My artwork deals with evolution, biology, and the senses.
1:46.4	I'm interested in how organisms are composed of different life forms, such as bacteria,
1:52.6	fungi, and viruses.
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