Meet Zhongjing 2.0, an artist’s creation that blurs the line between human and machine.
She is part of a new exhibition, ‘I Dream a Lot but I Never Sleep’, which runs until Friday 6 March at University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Canterbury. Zhongjing 2.0 is the humanoid robotic doppelganger of UCA PhD student Zhongjing Jiang. A mechanical head that has been modelled on the artist and set within an immersive installation that visitors can interact with at the Herbert Read Gallery at UCA in Canterbury, Kent.
Created to reflect upon loneliness, Zhongjing was inspired to explore this theme because she grew up as an only child during China’s one-child policy. Her resulting practice-led PhD research into loneliness, intimacy, and the shifting boundaries between humans and machines led to this exhibition. Zhongjng 2.0 wasn't created to provide a masterful technological solution to loneliness. It was created to examine the very real possibility of mechanical companionship in an increasingly algorithmic world: what might that look like, what might that feel like. Zhongjing explores how art can help us ask those questions.
Zhongjng 2.0 is on display at the Herbert Read Gallery at UCA in Canterbury weekdays 10 - 5pm until Friday 6 March. Live interaction sessions with the artist and robot take place every Tuesday and Thursday, 11.30am - 3.30pm.
Free
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I Dream A Lot But I Never Sleep
New Dover Road
CT1 3AN
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