{"id":2500,"date":"2019-08-02T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2019-08-02T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:28:34","slug":"exercises-in-passivity-at-jacob-lawrence-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?p=2500","title":{"rendered":"Exercises in Passivity at Jacob Lawrence Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EiPposter.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-O1w8ypu0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EiPposter-860x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"762\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2501\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EiPposter-860x1024.jpg 860w, http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EiPposter-252x300.jpg 252w, http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EiPposter-768x914.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EiPposter.jpg 1582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<strong>James Coupe <\/p>\n<p>Exercises in Passivity<\/strong><br \/>\nJuly 31 \u2013 August 24th 2019<br \/>\nOpening reception: Wednesday, July 31, 5 &#8211; 8 pm<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a robot.\u201d Check. Now click on all the boxes with traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, or shop fronts to prove it, while your answers help train an algorithm for a self-driving car. Unlike the Turing Test, which asks computers to convince us they are human, today, humans are perpetually asked to convince computers that they are not robots. The specter of full automation has finally arrived. In 2013, Amazon patented a design for a mobile \u201cworker cage\u201d that would protect warehouse employees from hazardous encounters with their robot colleagues. Five years later, they disabled the \u201claugh\u201d command for Alexa, Amazon\u2019s virtual assistant, after a series of troubling incidents. Meanwhile, over six million songs currently posted by users on Spotify have never been played by a human listener, and half a million people perform \u201cHuman Intelligence Tasks\u201d on Amazon\u2019s Mechanical Turk crowdworker platform. What remains for us\u2014and who does \u201cus\u201d include? Exercises in Passivity is an exhibition of new work by James Coupe that asks what makes us human in a post-AI society by examining the impact of automation on labor, affect, empathy and instrumentalization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Coupe<\/strong> is a Seattle-based artist who makes work with new technologies and media platforms, including real-time public surveillance systems, live social media content, and most recently, a global workforce of micro-laborers. Coupe\u2019s most recent work considers the impact of Big Data, automation and AI on the human condition by exploring the aesthetic value of searches and queries, immaterial labor, algorithmic narrative, and surplus information. Coupe has been the recipient of awards from Creative Capital, HeK Basel, and the Surveillance Studies Network, and has exhibited at venues including ZKM, FACT, the Prix Ars Electronica and the Toronto International Film Festival\/Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington\u2019s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS). <\/p>\n<p>Credits: <\/p>\n<p>This work was made possible by the support of the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), University of Washington. This exhibition is supported in part by the 4Culture Tech Specific Program, by the Bergstrom Award for Art and Science, and the UW E-Science Institute. With special thanks to Eamon McQuaide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?p=2500\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>James Coupe Exercises in Passivity July 31 \u2013 August 24th 2019 Opening reception: Wednesday, July 31, 5 &#8211; 8 pm \u201cI\u2019m not a robot.\u201d Check. Now click on all the boxes with traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, or shop fronts to prove it, while your answers help train an algorithm for a self-driving car. 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