The Curator of the 2022 Bucharest Biennial Has Been Announced. Its Artificial Intelligence. No, Really – artnet News

The opening of the 2020 Bucharest Biennial may be delayed, but the next editions curator has no concerns. Thats because he or she or it is a robot.

Thats right: the chief curator of the 2022Bucharest Biennial is Jarvis, anartificial intelligence programin development from the Vienna-based studio Spinnwerk.

Named after the superhero Iron Mans AI butler, Jarvis will use deep learning in order to learn by itself from databases from universities, galleries, or art centers and select works that fit the chosen theme,Spinnwerk founder Razvan Ion told the Art Newspaper.

Jarviss curatorial choices, therefore, will be limited to artists who are already on the art worlds radar.

Instead of a traditional in-person exhibition, the show will take place in virtual reality, meaning that it will be accessible to anyone in the world who has access to a VR headset. VR booths will also be set up in Bucharest and Vienna.

The rise of the robot curator comes as something of a surprise given that just three years ago, experts were forecasting that jobs in the arts were safe from AI invasion. (The website Replaced by Robot!?still ranks curator as the 34th safest of 702 jobs, with only a .68 chance of automation.)

But since 2017, a robot artist namedAi-Da has generated $1 million in sales, andChristies sold an AI artworkat auction for an astonishing $432,50043 times its estimate.

This years edition of the Bucharest Biennial, titled Farewell to Research, will also be an online affair, at least for the time being.Organized by Henk Slager, a curator of the human variety, it was set to run May 28 to July 4.

Instead, two online eventsa curatorial workshop and a symposium titled Contemporary Art BiennialsOur Hegemonic Machines in States of Emergencywill take place from June 23 to 28.The official opening has been postponed until spring 2021.

The 10th Bucharest Biennale will be on view May 19July 17, 2022.

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