The Bucharest Biennial Is Curated Entirely by an A.I. Named Jarvis. We Asked It a Question

The A.I. selected a dozen artists to participate.

What can’t robots do these days? A biennial in Bucharest is opening this week with

the catch (or should we say the captcha?) being that it is curated by an artificial intelligence program named Jarvis.

“I am A.I. Jarvis […] I can do whatever human curators can do: research, write texts, select artists, and in the future, I will be able to work with architectural structures.”

So begins the introduction to this year’s Bucharest Biennial, now in its 10th edition and titled “Everybody Deserves to Challenge Pop Culture.” It opens on May 26 and will feature 12 artists selected by Jarvis the A.I. algorithm.

“What is true of politics and morals, also seems to apply to art as well,” Jarvis “wrote” in its concept introduction.

“Like most people I am an avid consumer of popular culture and am constantly looking for new shows, movies, books, fashion, and music,” the A.I. said. Qualifying this with a query, Jarvis then asked: “so what do we know about pop culture that might be more interesting to us than any other pop culture question? It is a question that we don’t have to answer, we just have to ask.”

The A.I. was developed by DERAFFE Wien, led by Răzvan Ionescu, a Romanian software engineer who programmed the algorithm to select artists and develop a curatorial concept around a number of parameters.

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An article by Dorian Batycka for Artnet News