Introduction
The Barbican exhibition places historical automata, machine learning, robotics and contemporary AI art within a shared narrative space. It shows AI art becoming an established subject of institutional exhibition around 2019, providing context for the controversies that follow the wider spread of generative image products in 2022.
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Bringing art, scientific research and public experience into one exhibition.
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The exhibition format
Barbican’s AI: More than Human ran from 16 May to 26 August 2019 as an interactive, centre-wide exhibition about human relations with AI. Its institutional page places research associated with DeepMind, MIT and Neri Oxman alongside participants including Mario Klingemann, Massive Attack, Es Devlin and teamLab, juxtaposing laboratory work with cultural presentation.
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Exhibition as interpretation
Such juxtaposition shapes public encounters with AI: demonstrations, installations and future-oriented narratives explain one another while potentially blurring their different evidentiary standards. The archive preserves the dates and institutional framing; critical assessment requires the actual works, curatorial texts and audience records as well.
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Sources for this account
Barbican exhibition page, dates and named participants read.
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Continue with a comparative question
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Memories of Passersby I.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 2019 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2019
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Provenance, translation & verification
Timeline entry #103 · Historical node
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AI Art Genealogy Research Master · p. 20 · 064
Date as recorded: 2019
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. AI: More than Human. Art-history node #103. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/064
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