An AI awakens above Singapore on the eve of the city-state’s centennial celebrations in 2065 and chooses to be is an artist. Already a prodigy with numbers, it seeks to feed the other side of its savant-like brain, gorging on the products of cultural history with a geeky frenzy that occasionally undermines its aspiration to the lofty coolness of a lotus-eating aesthete. Part philosophical reflection on where ‘genius’ resides, part playful inventory of how science fiction has dealt with these eternal human/automaton themes, Geomancer is provocative stimulation for both the eye and the mind.
Geomancer
Lawrence Lek
- Exhibition
Event overview
3 April 2020 - 9 April 2020
SCHQ Electric (online)
Geomancer was commissioned for the Jerwood/FVU Awards: Neither One Thing or Another, a collaboration between Jerwood Arts and FVU. FVU is supported by Arts Council England