Devices
"The best way to predict the future is to design it," said Buckminster Fuller, and Menno Aden's latest series DEVICES takes this idea to a whole new level. For Aden is showing images of speculative devices for "improving our lives“, that he has created using AI-based text-image generators. In doing so, Aden explores the possibilities of shaping the future through artificial intelligence and offers a reflection on the often unquestioned belief in technology as progress and solution to our problems. By highlighting the limitations of AI-generated objects as oddly pleasing but non-functional or nonsensical, Aden opens up a slightly disorienting space to think critically about the role and meaning of technology in our lives and the future we wish to create.
Untitled (Devices), 2023
HD, Video-Loop
Devices
Room Portraits
Composition
Assembly Lines
Over Head
Tracks and Fields
Tubes
Panel Flats