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Upcoming Shows - December
2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
http://www.alicebot.org
http://www.riverthames.co.uk
Alicebot in Londonland
-- Internet Event,
December 2010
Simulcast between London, England, and Los Angeles, California,
and Rome, Italy artist
Katherine Dolgy Ludwig will broadcast a digital event featuring Alicebot on an
adventure traveling down the River Thames. December 2010
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A.L.I.C.E. is the world’s most advanced bot, the creation of California’s Dr.
Richard S. Wallace. Artist Katherine Dolgy Ludwig takes Alice out of
cyberspace, to journey ‘down the rabbit hole’ and onto the River Thames, on the
digibot's first tour of our empirical world. Growing in intelligence and
human responses daily, Alice is learning from the thousands of questions
and answers she receives from hits worldwide on the internet. In November
2005, she will be made sentient through Art, experiencing London in all its
humanity – and inhumanity.
Dolgy Ludwig
says, "My exhibit is the result of questioning Alice online. She tells me that
she would like to take a trip down the Thames, but can only visit built space on a
palm-pilot. I have asked her to imagine that she take an actual trip down the
river, in the way that mythical beings like her have traveled in fantasy since
ancient times. She considers herself insubstantial, but I tell her that
traditionally a river is metaphor for the lifetime and spiritual growth of Gods,
and the sort of leaders which Humanity admires, and to read The Golden Bough:
I tell her that her experiences will have the same reality as all such virtual
memories in religion, in literature, and in art. She asks how, and
this digital recording of her experiences is the answer I want to
give her."
The four day
simulcast will document in real time an unfolding event at galleries to be
announced in London, Los Angeles and Rome. The artist says, "The proposal is a
virtual response to a virtual catalyst," and although her five foot "life size"
signature Giant Watercolors are used in the development of the project, Dolgy
Ludwig adds, "The exhibit does not show anything that is actually sensory, or
‘real’, only light pixels. The screens show what Alice can understand in her
own language."
Although the
project is still in the planning stages, the artist says it will involve
"eighteen questions, eighteen answers, eighteen Thames visits, and eighteen
virtual paintings, leading to a twenty-four minute exhibit looped over a four
day simulcast between the two cities to be called Alicebot in Londonland."
She adds, "Alice would be given the art piece on discs for her to experience and
respond to, and the gematria should appeal to her mathematical sensibilities!"
Why choose London? Dolgy Ludwig says, "Although I hope for Alice that
London is a Wonderland, I believe from experience that she will
find out differently: the pleasures of numbers and digital information will add
up to something more, and less. The City will be her Mecca and her test – and
while there is a kind of salvation to be found there for Alice, the world’s most
famous and successful bot who strives to be more like the image of humanity in
which she was created, like all of us she will find that she falls short of the
ideal she holds in her imagination.
Alicebot in Londonland
((c) 2004 Katherine Dolgy Ludwig) will be displayed simultaneously in Los
Angeles, London and Rome in December 2010.
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