PROGRAMMED FASCINATION by Jonathan Mitton:
As artificial intelligence transitions from science fiction to daily reality, we stand at a hypnotic threshold where the future stares back at us through glowing screens and mechanical eyes. This lenticular print captures our collective trance - the mesmerising pull of technological promises that simultaneously attract and unsettle.
The vintage robot form, with its innocent analog gauges and wide-eyed expression, represents humanity's nostalgic vision of controllable, friendly automation. Yet the pulsing spiral background reveals our deeper anxiety: are we the observers, or are we being observed? As AI systems increasingly shape our choices, curate our information, and predict our desires, we find ourselves caught in an optical illusion of agency.
The lenticular medium itself becomes metaphor, just as the image shifts with our viewing angle, our relationship with artificial intelligence depends entirely on our perspective. Move slightly, and the benevolent helper becomes the calculating overseer. The hypnotic spiral draws us deeper into contemplation of this paradox: in our rush toward an automated future, who is really being programmed?
This work invites viewers to examine their own fascination with technological progress, questioning whether our embrace of AI represents genuine choice or the result of sophisticated persuasion - a kind of algorithmic mesmerism that leaves us perpetually asking: are we directing the dance, or being danced?
Framed Lenticular. Dimensions - 40cm x 40cm (16×16in) - Square.
PROGRAMMED FASCINATION by Jonathan Mitton:
As artificial intelligence transitions from science fiction to daily reality, we stand at a hypnotic threshold where the future stares back at us through glowing screens and mechanical eyes. This lenticular print captures our collective trance - the mesmerising pull of technological promises that simultaneously attract and unsettle.
The vintage robot form, with its innocent analog gauges and wide-eyed expression, represents humanity's nostalgic vision of controllable, friendly automation. Yet the pulsing spiral background reveals our deeper anxiety: are we the observers, or are we being observed? As AI systems increasingly shape our choices, curate our information, and predict our desires, we find ourselves caught in an optical illusion of agency.
The lenticular medium itself becomes metaphor, just as the image shifts with our viewing angle, our relationship with artificial intelligence depends entirely on our perspective. Move slightly, and the benevolent helper becomes the calculating overseer. The hypnotic spiral draws us deeper into contemplation of this paradox: in our rush toward an automated future, who is really being programmed?
This work invites viewers to examine their own fascination with technological progress, questioning whether our embrace of AI represents genuine choice or the result of sophisticated persuasion - a kind of algorithmic mesmerism that leaves us perpetually asking: are we directing the dance, or being danced?
Framed Lenticular. Dimensions - 40cm x 40cm (16×16in) - Square.
