Project Title

Machines have less problems

Artist

Yunxuan LIN

Description
As a detective, your task is to identify the AI-generated works within this 3D virtual gallery. In the exhibition featured in the video, half of the displayed pieces are created through AI-generated fusions of my paintings and database materials, blurring the boundaries between authenticity and artificiality. The distinctions are so subtle they become nearly imperceptible, raising a crucial question: If AI can replicate artistic achievements, then why wouldn't we be machines? "Machines have less problems" - the exhibition's title quotes Andy Warhol, the pioneer of 20th-century Pop Art. The poster pays homage to his iconic Campbell's Soup Cans, a seminal Pop Art symbol. Just as Warhol employed silkscreen printing to mass-produce repetitive imagery, the rise of AI technology heralds an era of industrialized cultural commodities - contemporary 'soup cans' exuding a data-sweetened allure. Perhaps one day, we'll be unable to discern what percentage of social media content or street posters are human-made versus AI-generated, much like the ambiguity within this gallery.  
"Machines have less problems" employs Pop Art aesthetics—collage, commercial printing, mass reproduction, and kitsch elements—to transpose the questions Andy Warhol raised in the 1960s into today’s context, discussing the relationship between human and machines. It interrogates the duality of AI-driven liberation and human alienation. Is the efficiency of replicating artistic effects a technological blessing or a void beneath commercialization? If we were machines, would existence feel less brutal? Perhaps no definitive answer is required.

Media Element
# Digital Cinematography
# Video Editing
# Animation / Stop-motion animation
# AI-generated Art
# Calligraphy