Event #2: LOVE MACHINES

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Love Machines is a collective of art in different mediums, including an interactive VR headset exploring the mingling of multiple generations to a live human performance exploring their relationships to others and themselves within the context of the internet. The main theme of the collection is to display how using the facets of the internet and its mediums can lead you to learning more about yourself and eventually falling in love with the person you've become (DMA).

Photo of "Love Machines" Pamphlet

As I was walking through the exhibit the artist who caught my eye the most would be Aurora Mititelu. She submitted two works: Gen/esis and Abel & I. She explained that her projects were based on an Ai-generated depiction of what she believed to be a 'perfect' boyfriend. Aurora's boyfriend is actually a genderbent version of herself and she was able to create him by using a 3D scanner to scan her face and upload it into a program. Through this project she was able to learn more about herself and thought more about how society perceives gender and heteronormativity. Her work is the culmination of technology and shows us that it offers us a way to connect with ourselves by removing both the fear and anxiety that is riddled within human connections (Hasan). 

Gen/esis by Aurora Mititelu

The Love Machines exhibition is helmed by creative artists that "pursue research agendas ignored and abandoned by mainstream commerce and science as unprofitable, uninteresting, or in questionable taste" (Wilson). In the end, this art exhibit managed to mix two mediums together, art and technology, and through their mix we were able to see the liberation of one's former self and the birth of something new. 

Photo of Aurora & Myself

Images

  1. Photo of "Love Machines" Pamphlet, Broad Art Center, 16 May 2024
  2. Mititelu, Aurora. “Gen/Esis,” New Wight Gallery, 16 May 2024.
  3. Photo of Aurora & Myself, Broad Art Center, 16 May 2024

References

  1. DMA, UCLA. “UCLA Design Media Arts | Event | MFA Thesis Spring 2024 Exhibit.” Www.design.ucla.edu, www.design.ucla.edu/events/mfa-spring-24-exhibit. Accessed 16 May 2024

  2. Hasan, Onder. “Does Technology Affect Our Self Confidence?” Dawn of Change, 24 July 2012, www.dawnofchange.com/technology-and-self-confidence/.

  3. Wilson, Stephen . “Myths and Confusion in Thinking about Art/Science/Technology.” College Art Association Meetings, 2000.





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