<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" dir="auto" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">"To see and to be seen.</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Artificial Intelligence and Human Perception"</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">„Sehen und gesehen werden</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Künstliche Intelligenz und menschliche Wahrnehmung“</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Curated by Timo Kahlen</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><u class="">Invitation to the exhibition preview</u> on Sunday, September 3, 2023 from 3 - 6 pm</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">(Performance at 15:30)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Exhibition from September 3 - September 24, 2023</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">open every Sunday from 15 - 18 pm</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">(Performance at 15:30)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Ruine der Künste Berlin</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Hittorfstr. 5, 14195 Berlin (Dahlem)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">U3 Freie Universität</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Free admission</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Press Release:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">We are treading on thin ice. Will AI, Artificial Intelligence, take over the way we see, feel and perceive, experience and shape our world in the future? And what about the grey areas of the mind: what we (don't) think and do, what we (don't) feel and want, what we dream of and (occasionally) destroy? Will all this be read and seen, interpreted and stored, digitally mapped, reproduced, replicated and recreated by machines in the future? Will AI 'ruin' the foundations of art and culture? Or will human creativity, the individual urge to create, the intentional imperfection, prevail - at a time when the ethical, social, copyright and privacy issues of AI are still unresolved, or at best in limbo? Just like the concept of 'artificial intelligence' itself.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Initiated and curated by Timo Kahlen, the exhibition at the Ruine der Künste Berlin is a mind game: it drafts a field of tension between AI and human design, plays with the reciprocal relationship between pre- and after-images, reflects on the relationship between immaterial idea and material representation.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">In the exhibition, a total of 40 hand-drawn portraits by 40 different, as yet unknown artists, fascinating interpretations and variants of one and the same photographic source image (a series of self-portraits by the Polish artist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz from the 1930s), are juxtaposed with more than 40 (out of countless) generations of digital images created in just a few seconds by artificial intelligence: all of them portraits of an anonymous, early female protagonist of photography at the time of its invention (1839). Similar to the creation of the drawings, the digital images of the person(s) portrayed are based on a single source: a prompt in the command line of the AI used, only a few lines long, briefly describing the desired and fictitious result. Thus, the resulting images are not 'photographs' in the strict sense of the word, but diffuse memories, generated 'summa summarum' by the AI, consistently self-similar and self-referential, yet in part convincingly 'alive', by means of a diffusion process: that is, from the sum of all images machine-read, 'learnt' and 'seen' in the internet. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The precisely staged current exhibition at the Ruine der Künste Berlin is complemented by a live <u class="">performance</u> (every Sunday at 3:30 pm).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">You are cordially invited to the exhibition opening on</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">on Sunday, September 3, 2023 from 3 - 6 pm.</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Admission is free of charge.</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Open also by appointment</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">at <a href="mailto:mail@timo-kahlen.de" class="">mail@timo-kahlen.de</a></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div></div></body></html>