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Ian Cheng

BOB drawings 2018

Risograph on Cairn Eco White 300gsm

214 x 300mm

Edition of 150 plus 25APs, signed and numbered

£84.00

 

Ian Cheng has created this Limited Edition print on the occasion of his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. It is a composite of working drawings that Cheng produced in order to develop the visible characteristics of the artificially-intelligent lifeform, BOB (Bag Of Beliefs), from its tentacular body to the visitor's experience in the gallery space. It is the first Limited Edition print ever made by Cheng and each is signed and numbered.

 

Ian Cheng

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Ian Cheng (b. 1984 in Los Angeles) is an artist based in New York. He has exhibited widely including solo presentations at Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; Light Art Space, Berlin; The Shed, New York; LUMA Foundation, Arles; Serpentine Galleries, London; MoMA PS1, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; and group presentations at Venice Biennale, Venice; Museum of Modern Art, New York; De Young Museum, San Francisco; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Okayama Art Summit, Okayama; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; Tate Modern, London; Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Sculpture Center, New York.

Since 2012, Cheng has produced a series of simulations exploring an agent’s capacity to deal with an ever-changing environment. These works culminated in the Emissaries trilogy, which introduced a narrative agent whose motivation to enact a story was set into conflict with the open-ended chaos of the simulation. He is the creator of BOB (Bag of Beliefs), an AI-driven creature whose personality, body, and life story evolve across exhibitions, what Cheng calls “art with a nervous system.” Most recently, Cheng directed Life After BOB, a real-time anime exploring human-AI symbiosis. Cheng is the author of Emissary's Guide To Worlding, a book exploring the psychology and techniques of creating living autonomous worlds. Cheng is the founder of Opponent, a new company building animal-level AI agents for kids and families.

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