When Dean Kamen set out just before the turn of the millennium to monetize his brilliant invention—a wheelchair equipped with a hybrid wheel cluster for uneven terrain—he referred to the prototype in his notes as "Ginger." We would later come to know this product as the Segway. We can only speculate whether Kamen initially chose this name for its cleansing properties, intending to liberate the human race from walking and elevate it to the soaring glide of a personal transporter.
This experiment ultimately ended in tragedy, much like the concept of the hoverboard—the Segway's trivialized little brother hailing from the legendary sci-fi Back to the Future (a title that could easily serve as the subtext for this exhibition). Our sobering return to reality came by way of bicycles and scooters, augmented by the electric propulsion of marginalization and poor working conditions within the food delivery sector.
Throughout the exhibition, we observe this entire process through the prism of artificial intelligence—specifically, a humanoid. This represents yet another idealized vision of the "robot" that has failed to materialize since the 1960s, and remains far from reality today. The premise of this juxtaposition begs the question: What would an artificial intelligence make of this tangled mess? By design, the final outcome is a bewildered entity, grasping for truth and resolution in a world defined by uncertain developments and shifting trajectories.
curator: Šimon Kadlčák
Gallery Zaazrak Dornych
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