The Prophet in the Darkness

์–ด๋‘  ์†์˜ ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž
Year
2023
Genre
Drawing & Painting, Installation, NFT, Sculpture & Objet, Text, Time-based Media
Media
Exhibition with multi-channel 3D animation, drawings, paintings, poems, 3D printed ceramic objects, furniture, lightings, mixed-media
Dimensions
Variable

์‹œ๋†‰์‹œ์Šค

๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ์ฌ๋Š” ํƒœ์–‘ ์•„๋ž˜, ๋์„ ๊ฐ€๋Š ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ง‰์ด ํŽผ์ณ์ง„๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฌธ๋ช…์ด ๋ชจ๋ž˜๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ํœ˜๋‚ ๋ ค ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ๋“ฏ ์ƒ๋ช…์˜ ํ”์ ์€ ์˜จ๋ฐ๊ฐ„๋ฐ์—†๊ณ  ํํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋œ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ๋งŒ์ด ๊ฐ„์‹ ํžˆ ์„œ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ ๋ง‰ํ•จ ์†์— ๊ด‘ํ™œํ•œ ํ™ฉ๋ฌด์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•œ ๋Œ€์˜ ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰, '์•„์ด๋ชจ(iMo)'๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค. ์•„์ด๋ชจ๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” AI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž๊ฐ€ ํƒ‘์žฌ๋œ ์™„์ „์ž์œจ์ฃผํ–‰ ์ „๊ธฐ์ฐจ๋‹ค. ๊ด€๊ฐ์€ ํƒ‘์Šน๊ฐ์ด ๋˜์–ด ์ข…์ฐฉ์ง€์ธ ๊ธธ์˜ ๋, ์ด๋ฆ„ ์—†๋Š” ๊ณณ*์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ์†๋„๋กœ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚˜ ๊ตญ๋„๋กœ ์ง„์ž…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ํ†ต์‹ ์ด ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ•œ ์ข์€ ์‹œ๊ณจ๊ธธ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ์ด๋•Œ, ์–ด๋‘  ์†์—์„œ ์ฐฐ๋‚˜์˜ ์„ฌ๊ด‘์ด ๊ฐ์ง€๋œ๋‹ค. ๋ฉธ์ข…๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๋™๋ฌผ. ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ๋ˆˆ๋™์ž, ์•„์ด์ƒค์ธ. AI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž๋Š” ํ•™์Šตํ•œ ์  ์—†๋Š” ์ƒ๋ช…์ฒด์™€์˜ ์ถฉ๋Œ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ๊ธ‰ํžˆ ํ•ธ๋“ค์„ ํ‹€๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ฌด ์•ž์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์Šค๋กœ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์–ด ์„ ๋‹ค. ๋’ค๋”ฐ๋ผ์˜ค๋˜ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ๊ฐœ์กฐ๋œ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ํŠธ๋Ÿญ. ์˜ˆ๊ธฐ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด. ์ž์œจ์ฃผํ–‰ ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰์˜ ์‚ฌ์›์น™์„ ์–ด๊ธด ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ. AI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž์˜ ์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹คํŒจ์ธ๊ฐ€, ์šฐ๋ฐœ์  ์‚ฌ๊ณ ์— ๋ฐœํœ˜๋œ ๊ธฐ์ง€์ธ๊ฐ€? ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ธก ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž์˜ ํŒ๋‹จ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ธก์˜ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์€ ์ž์œจ์ฃผํ–‰ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์— ํฐ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๋Š”๋ฐโ€ฆ! ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ๊ฒฝ์œ„๋ฅผ ํŒŒํ—ค์ณ ์›์ธ์„ ๊ทœ๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” AI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž์˜ ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ, ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ๋‹ค.

*์ด๋ฆ„ ์—†๋Š” ๊ณณ(The place that has no name)์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ „์ž‘์˜ ์ œ๋ชฉ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค.

Synopsis

An endless desert stretches out beneath a blazing sun. There are no signs of life, only ruined buildings barely standing, as if all civilization has been swept away by the wind. In this seemingly timeless desolation, we see a lone vehicle, 'iMo', driving across the vast wasteland. iMo is a fully autonomous electric vehicle driven by the most advanced artificial intelligence technology ever developed in history โ€“ the AI Prophet. The audience becomes a passenger and heads to the end of the road, The place that has no name*.

From the highway, it turns onto a country road. It is safely traveling on narrow country roads with unreliable network communications. But then, in the darkness, it sees a flash of light - an animal believed to be extinct, with sparkling eyes, called Eyeshine. The Prophet swerves to avoid a collision with the unfamiliar creature and comes to a screeching halt in front of a tree. However, the illegally modified Cybertruck behind it is unable to avoid the animal and collides with it. This event occurs unexpectedly, and the Prophet ultimately violates a cardinal rule of autonomous vehicles. The question arises: is it the failure of the AI Prophet's predictive ability or its intelligence exercised in an accident? The fact that the Prophet's judgment can be uncertain creates great turmoil within the autonomous systemโ€ฆ! This leads to an AI Hearing that will delve into what happened and determine the cause of the incident.

*The place that has no name is the title of a previous work related to this work.

ใ€Š์–ด๋‘  ์†์˜ ์˜ˆ์–ธ์žใ€‹๋Š” 'AI ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ'๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋‡Œ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋‰ด๋กœ๋ชจํ”ฝ ์นฉ์„ ์žฅ์ฐฉํ•œ ์ดˆ์ง€๋Šฅ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ, 'AI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž'๊ฐ€ ํƒ‘์žฌ๋œ ์™„์ „์ž์œจ์ฃผํ–‰ ์ž๋™์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์šฉํ™”๋œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋Š” ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ์ธ๊ฐ„์„ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด ๋ชจ๋“  ํŒ๋‹จ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ AI๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด์กฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋„๊ตฌ์  ์œ„์น˜์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ธ๊ฒฉ์ฒด, ์ฆ‰ ์ „์ž์ธ๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์กด์ค‘๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ AI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž๋Š” ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ธก ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์•ˆ์ •๋œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ „์‹œ๋Š” AI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž์˜ ์˜ˆ์ธก์ด ์‹คํŒจํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค์ •ํ•ด ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๋ฏฟ์Œ์ด ์œ„ํ˜‘๋ฐ›๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ์—ฐ์ถœํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” AI ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ์—์„œ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ์‹คํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง„๋‹ค. ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ๋Š” 3D ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํœด๋จผ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜•์ƒํ™”๋œ ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž, ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ, ์˜์žฅ์ด ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์œ„์น˜์—์„œ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์˜ ๋”œ๋ ˆ๋งˆ์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ธ๊ฐ„์€ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ๋งŒ๋“  ๋กœ๋ด‡๊ณผ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์ด ์ž์œจ์„ฑ์„ ํš๋“ํ•  ๋•Œ ํ•„์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์œค๋ฆฌ์  ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณผ ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€?

๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋น„ํ‰์  ์‹œ๊ฐ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ์œ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ณผํ•™๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ํŽธ์žฌํ•œ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ํ‹ˆ์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํ†ต์ฐฐ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์™”๋˜ ๋ฐฉ์•ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ใ€ŠAVS: Artists' View of Science ๊ณผํ•™์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€์˜ ์‹œ์„  - ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ๋ ˆํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์นดใ€‹(2023, ๊น€ํฌ์ˆ˜์•„ํŠธ์„ผํ„ฐ)๋ฅผ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋ฐ•์ข…๊ธธ(KIST ์„ ์ž„์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›, ๋‰ด๋กœ๋ชจํ”ฝ ๊ณตํ•™๋ฐ•์‚ฌ) ๊ณผํ•™์ž์™€ ํ˜‘์—…ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์‚ฌํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋”์šฑ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ฒญ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์žฌ์ฐฝ์กฐํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ฐœ๋…, ๊ณผํ•™๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์œค๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋”œ๋ ˆ๋งˆ, ์‚ถ์˜ ์ „ ์˜์—ญ์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ์“ฐ์ž„๊ณผ ํŒŒ๊ธ‰๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์ง€๋ฉฐ ๊ณง ๋„๋ž˜ํ•  ์ž์œจ์ฃผํ–‰ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด˜์ด˜ํ•œ ์ฒ ํ•™์  ์‚ฌ์œ ๋ฅผ ์ „๊ฐœํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณผํ•™๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฌธํ•ด๋ ฅ ๋ฐ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์„ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์˜์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ตดํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญํ• ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ž์ฒญํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ „์‹œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ด€๊ฐ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค.

The Prophet in the Darkness holds an 'AI hearing.' This is a technological society where fully autonomous vehicles driven by the 'AI Prophet' have been commercialized. The AI Prophet is an Artificial superintelligence (ASI) equipped with neuromorphic chips that imitate the human brain. Here, the AI system makes all the judgments and decisions on behalf of the human, and the AI is treated as an electronic person, rather than a tool that supports humans. Moreover, the AI Prophet fulfills its role as the seer through its perfect predictive capabilities, further ensuring a stable future.

However, there occurs a situation in which the AI Prophet fails to predict accurately, threatening the firm faith in its AI system. This leads to another thought experiment at an AI hearing. The hearing includes the Prophet, the Agent, and the Chairman, who are portrayed as 3D digital human representations. They are engaging in a discussion about the AI dilemma from their individual perspectives. So, how will humans address the ethical concerns that will inevitably arise as robots and AI, created by humans, become more autonomous?

Bang & Lee understand the societal gaps caused by the widespread influence of science and technology through various media forms. They have been collaborating with scientist Jongkil Park (Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Center for Neuromorphic Engineering, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, KIST) for the exhibition "AVS: Artists' View of Science - Natural Replica" (Kim Hee Soo Art Center, 2023). They create a more inclusive plan for the future of society. At the same time, they delve into profound philosophical ideas that anticipate the era of autonomous driving. They inquire into the redefined nature of time brought about by AI technology, the moral dilemmas arising from technology, and its practical consequences and impacts. In addition, they claim the role of an artist as a mediator and aim to improve science and technology literacy and accessibility. They also aim to identify social agendas associated with the use of technology and further encourage the audience to think independently during the exhibition.

Bang & Lee: The Prophet in the Darkness, Exhibition at TMCA

๐Ÿ“‚ Exhibition Leaflet + Appendix ๐Ÿ”— [Bang & Lee] ์–ด๋‘  ์†์˜ ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž_The Prophet in the Darkness

๋ฐฉ์•ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ•์ข…๊ธธ ๊ณผํ•™์ž(KIST ์„ ์ž„์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›, ๋‰ด๋กœ๋ชจํ”ฝ ๊ณตํ•™๋ฐ•์‚ฌ)์™€ ํ˜‘์—…์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋‡Œ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋‰ด๋กœ๋ชจํ”ฝ ์นฉ์„ ์žฅ์ฐฉํ•œ ์ดˆ์ง€๋Šฅ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์ด ๋„๋ž˜ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ฐ์ž‘์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋ฆผ๋ฌธํ™”์žฌ๋‹จ ๊น€ํฌ์ˆ˜ ์•„ํŠธ์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ๋“ค์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ๋ฐœ๋‹จ๊ณผ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•œ ์ „์ž‘ ใ€Š์•„์ด์ƒค์ธ(Eyeshine)ใ€‹(2023)์— ์ด์–ด, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ๋“ค์ด ์ฃผ์ตœํ•˜๋Š” ใ€ŠAI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ(The Hearing on AI Prophet)ใ€‹์™€ ์˜ˆ์ธก ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŒ๋‹จ์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ใ€Š์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์„ฑ(The reconstruction of the incident)ใ€‹(2023) ํ›„์†์ž‘์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ใ€Š์–ด๋‘  ์†์˜ ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž(The Prophet in the Darkness)ใ€‹(2023) ์ „์‹œ๋ฅผ ํ† ํƒˆ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์—์„œ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋‹ฎ์€ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•œ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ์ธต์œ„๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ ๊ณผํ•™๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์œค๋ฆฌ, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์˜ ์˜ˆ์ธก ์˜ค๋ฅ˜์™€ ๋”œ๋ ˆ๋งˆ, ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ๊ณ ์œ ์˜ ์ถ”๋ก  ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ฐฝ์˜์„ฑ, ๊ธฐ์–ต๊ณผ ์›๋ณธ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ ํ…์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ๋‚ญ๋… ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ, ๋“œ๋กœ์ž‰, ํšŒํ™”, 3D ํ”„๋ฆฐํŒ… ๋„์ž๊ธฐ ์˜ค๋ธŒ์ œ, ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์–ด์ฒ˜ ๋“ฑ ํ‰๋ฉด๊ณผ ์ž…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐ์ฑ„๋„ 3D ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜ ์˜์ƒ ์„ค์น˜์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฐ€์ƒ ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ์— ๊ด€๊ฐ์„ ์ฒญ์ค‘์œผ๋กœ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ทน์  ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์—ฐ์ถœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

AI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž๊ฐ€ ํƒ‘์žฌ๋œ ์™„์ „์ž์œจ์ฃผํ–‰ ์ž๋™์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์šฉํ™”๋œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋Š” ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ์ธ๊ฐ„์„ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด ๋ชจ๋“  ํŒ๋‹จ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด์กฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋„๊ตฌ์  ์œ„์น˜์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ธ๊ฒฉ์ฒด, ์ฆ‰ ์ „์ž์ธ๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์กด์ค‘๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ด์—, AI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž๋Š” ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ธก ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์•ˆ์ •๋œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž๋กœ์„œ ๊ทธ ์—ญํ• ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ์ฃผ์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ๋“ค์ด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ฃผ์ตœํ•˜๋Š” ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ๋Š” ์ผ์ข…์˜ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ์‹คํ—˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํœด๋จผ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋กœ ํƒ„์ƒํ•œ ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž, ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ, ์˜์žฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ™”๋ฉด ๋ฐ– ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚ด๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ์ „์‹œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ด€๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐฉ์ฒญ๊ฐ์ด ๋˜์–ด ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ์žฅ์— ์ž๋ฆฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ „์‹œ๋Š” ๊ณง ๋„๋ž˜ํ•  ์ž์œจ์ฃผํ–‰ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ AI ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์žฌ์ฐฝ์กฐํ•˜๋Š” ‘์ด๋ฒคํŠธ(event)’ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ฐœ๋…์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅ๋œ ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ด€์„ ํŽผ์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผํ•™๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์œค๋ฆฌ์™€ ๊ทธ ๋”œ๋ ˆ๋งˆ, ์‚ถ์˜ ์ „ ์˜์—ญ์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ์“ฐ์ž„๊ณผ ํŒŒ๊ธ‰๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ๊ด€๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ์˜ ํ‹ˆ, ์‚ฌ์ƒ‰์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ™”์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณผํ•™๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๋ฌธํ•ด๋ ฅ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋น„์žฅ์• ์ธ๊ณผ ์žฅ์• ์ธ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ‘์Œ์„ฑํ•ด์„ค ์ „์‹œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ํˆฌ์–ด’ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์š”์†Œ๋กœ ํฌํ•จํ•ด ‘๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ’์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ์ง€์†ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Bang & Lee is collaborating with scientist Jongkil Park (Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Center for Neuromorphic Engineering, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, KIST) to progress with a series envisioning a future society where super-intelligent artificial intelligence, equipped with neuromorphic chips mimicking the human brain, has emerged. Following their previous work Eyeshine (2023), which introduced the genesis and backdrop of events through dialogues among artificial intelligences at the Kim Hee Soo Art Center of the Soorim Cultural Foundation, they are presenting The Prophet in the Darkness (2023) at the Total Museum of Contemporary Art, focusing on the sequel The Reconstruction of the Incident (2023) surrounding judgments on unpredictable situations, orchestrated by artificial intelligences during the Hearing of AI Prophet.

Delving into the complex layers of events involving human-like artificial intelligence, the exhibition raises profound questions about scientific and technological ethics, the prediction errors and dilemmas of artificial intelligence, and, further, delves into deep inquiries regarding human unique reasoning abilities, creativity, memory, and origins. Through a combination of poetry texts, recitation soundtracks, drawings, paintings, 3D-printed ceramic objects, miniatures, and multi-channel 3D animated video installations, the exhibition dramatizes a theatrical space, inviting audiences to participate as spectators in a virtual hearing.

In the technologically advanced society where autonomous vehicles equipped with AI prophets have become commercialized, AI systems make all judgments and decisions in place of humans. AI transcends its role as a mere tool for human assistance, earning respect as an individual entity, an electronic personality. The AI Prophet fulfills its role as a prophet ensuring a stable future with its perfect predictive abilities. Unlike hearings conducted by humans regarding artificial intelligence, this self-organized hearing by artificial intelligences serves as a sort of thought experiment. The exhibition showcases a digital human character born as a Prophet, Agent, Chairman, and a Narrator appearing outside the screen, with the audience of the exhibition space serving as spectators in the hearing chamber.

The exhibition unfolds an expanded worldview based on the concept of time derived from ‘events’ reconstructed by artificial intelligence technology through the Hearing on AI Prophet, portraying the imminent era of autonomous driving. It delves into scientific and technological ethics and dilemmas, addressing the use and ramifications of technology across all aspects of life, providing audiences participating in the hearing with spaces for contemplation, exploration, and dialogue. Additionally, as a significant element of the artwork, the exhibition includes a Guided Art Tour program, an exhibition audio description with the artists, aiming to enhance accessibility for both non-disabled and disabled audiences, continuing efforts towards ‘art for everyone.’

๋งŒ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค

์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฉ์•ค๋ฆฌ
๊ณผํ•™์ž ๋ฐ•์ข…๊ธธ

ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ € ์„œ๋ฏธ์„  
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ํ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ ์ด๋ณด๋ฆ„
์ „์‹œ ์Œ์„ฑํ•ด์„ค ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ํˆฌ์–ด ์„œ์ˆ˜์—ฐ
๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ ๊ตฌํƒœํ›ˆ, ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋“œ ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค
๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ๋””์ž์ธ ์žฅ์›ํ˜ธ, ํ™์•ค์žฅ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ
์˜์ƒ์ดฌ์˜ ๋ฐ ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ ์Šˆ๊ฐ€์†”ํŠธํŽ˜ํผ, ๋ด„
์˜์ƒ์žฅ๋น„ ๋ฏธ์ง€์•„ํŠธ

ํ† ํƒˆ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€
์ฑ…์ž„ ํ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ ์‹ ๋ณด์Šฌ
์ฝ”๋””๋„ค์ดํ„ฐ ๊น€๋ฏผ์„ , ๊น€์˜์€, ์œคํ˜„๋ฏผ
๋„์›€ ์ด์˜ˆ์€

์ฃผ์ตœ ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๊ด€ ๋ฐฉ์•ค๋ฆฌ ์ŠคํŠœ๋””์˜ค
ํ›„์› ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ˆ์ˆ ์œ„์›ํšŒ, ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ณผ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์œตํ•ฉ์ง€์› 
๋ณธ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ 2023๋…„ ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ˆ์ˆ ์œ„์›ํšŒ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ณผ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์œตํ•ฉ์ง€์›์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ง€์›์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Created by

Artist Bang & Lee
Scientist Jongkil Park

PM Misun Seo
Associated Curator Borum Lee
Audio Description and Accessible Guided Tour Sooyeon Seo
Translation and Proofreading Taehun Gu, Richard Thomas
Graphic Design Wonho Jang, HnJsamuso
Filming Production and Archive sugarsaltpepper, Bom
Video Equipment Miji Art

Total Museum of Contemporary Art
Chief Curator Boseul Shin
Coordinator Minseon Kim, Youngeun Kim, Hyunmin Yoon
Special Thanks to Ye Eun Lee

Organizing & Hosting Bang & Lee Studio
Support Arts Council Korea, Art & Tech
This project is supported by ARKOโ€™s “2023 Art and Technology Convergence Support Grant Program.”

๋ฐฉ์•ค๋ฆฌ, ์–ด๋‘  ์†์˜ ์˜ˆ์–ธ์ž, 2023
์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์ œ๊ณต: ์ž‘๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ ํ† ํƒˆ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€
์‚ฌ์ง„: ๋…ธ์„ธํ™˜
Bang & Lee, The Hearing on AI Prophet, 2023
Image courtesy of the artist and Total Museum of Contemporary Art
Photo by Sean Sehwan Roh