With the exhibition synthetic organisms, artist and researcher Masha Jazbec focuses on ideas about the coexistence of Man and robot and presents a synthesis of her many years of research in the field of humanioid robots. In the exhibition center of the former monastery church, a holistic spatial installation is set up, which addresses many fundamental social and ethical issues with visual means, such as the understanding of life and vividness, the relationship between organic and inorganic matter and the possible substitutability of the human species.
The artist addresses many of the challenges of modern times related to the perception and use of advanced technologies through the perspective of their social complexity, which is why her works go beyond the technical aspects of robotics and address, in particular, conceptual and existential issues related to it. He does not perceive modern technologies as self-evident, but critically and analytically dissects them in relation to current social realities. In her multi-faceted practice, Masha Jazbec works as an artist and scientific researcher of humanoid robotics, and she also translates empirical findings into her works of art that analyze and predict the possible future of civilization. In addition to the scientific paradigms of robotics, the exhibition, based on sculptures of fictional androids, also refers to science fiction literature and film, which in the past century have been an important factor for anticipating and understanding life in the future. She enriched robotics as an exact interdisciplinary science with a sociological and philosophical questioning of what it means to be human today. The state of mind of the human species is also reflected in our attitude towards robots.
Curator: Miha Colner
Photo: Jaka Babnik
Umetnica in raziskovalka Maša Jazbec se z razstavo Sintetični organizmi osredotoča na ideje o sožitju človeka in robota in predstavlja sintezo svojega večletnega raziskovanja na področju humaniodnih robotov. V razstavišču nekdanje samostanske cerkve je postavljena celostna prostorska instalacija, ki z vizualnimi sredstvi naslavlja številna temeljna družbena in etična vprašanja, kot so razumevanje življenja in živosti, odnos med organsko in anorgansko materijo in mogoča nadomestljivost človeške vrste.
Umetnica številne izzive sodobnega časa, povezane s percepcijo in rabo naprednih tehnologij, obravnava skozi perspektivo njihove družbene kompleksnosti, zato njena dela presegajo tehnične vidike robotike in naslavljajo zlasti z njo povezana konceptualna in eksistencialna vprašanja. Sodobnih tehnologij ne dojema kot samoumevnih, ampak jih kritično in analitično secira v odnosu do aktualnih družbenih stvarnosti. V svoji večplastni praksi Maša Jazbec deluje kot umetnica in znanstvena raziskovalka humanoidne robotike, empirične izsledke pa prenaša tudi v svoja umetniška dela, ki analizirajo in predvidevajo mogoče prihodnosti civilizacije. Razstava, ki temelji na skulpturah fiktivnih androidov, se poleg znanstvenih paradigem robotike nanaša tudi na znanstvenofantastično literaturo in film, ki sta bila v preteklem stoletju pomemben faktor za predvidevanje in razumevanje življenja v bodočnosti. Robotiko kot eksaktno interdisciplinarno znanost je oplemenitila s sociološkim in filozofskim izpraševanjem tega, kaj danes pomeni biti človek. Stanje duha človeške vrste se namreč odraža tudi skozi naš odnos do robotov.
Kustos: Miha Colner
Foto: Jaka Babnik
