¡°Hello World ¡ª For the Post-Human Age¡± at Art Tower Mito looks at developments in art in the context of digital technology and artificial intelligence. It starts with a lightly comedic farce, in the form of Cecile B. Evans¡¯ 2016 multimedia installation ¡°Sprung a Leak.¡± This three-act work, partly inspired by Shakespeare¡¯s ¡°The Two Noble Kinsmen,¡± tells an elliptical and intentionally glitchy tale of human users¡¯ distress when Liberty, their favorite animated beauty blogger, disappears and how a solution is patched together by well-meaning robots.
The next six spaces in the gallery are arranged to provide an immersive experience with seven further explorations of art at a time when, as cultural theorist Mark Fisher put it in his 2009 book ¡°Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?,¡± ¡°it¡¯s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.¡±
In David Blandy¡¯s video work ¡°Tutorial: How to Make a Short Video About Extinction,¡± we are shown how to splice together clips collected from YouTube to make a tragicomic mockumentary that features numerous ways that we may bite the dust.
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