Yewen Jin

As both an artist and a researcher, Zach Blas has produce a body of work that’s aesthetically interesting and grabbing, critically sharp and pointed. As a result of such methodology – using artistic practice as a means of conducting research, the art work are generally drawing references from and contributing to the most relevant and…

Earlier this year when I was visiting the Barbican for the AI: More Than Human exhibition, there one piece of work that was stuck with me for a long time (and it was free). It was the interactive installation Future You by Universal Everything. Situated right in the main corridor on the Silk street entrance,…

In the last couple of weeks I’ve been growingly critical towards the humanization of AI. Last week I briefly mentioned an observation that from the inception of the Artificial Intelligence (and particularly during the early periods), the idea of what AI is are closely related to how we conceive human intelligence. In other words, to…

Since the inception of Artificial Intelligence, the notion of “intelligence” and “being like a human” are often interchangeable. This is a lineage of western tradition of equating human intellectual capacity as the unique and supreme power in comparison to all other beings, animate or not: to be human is to have a mind, and to…

A few years ago I reconnected with an old classmate via Spotify. We had barely spoken to each other in real life until we found that we had eerily similar music taste while looking at each other’s playlists . And then we started talking on Facebook and became friends. While we both moved to Europe…

The moment we forget that we are using a tool when we are using it is the moment that we have tamed it. Like riding a bike. But when exactly are we being tamed by it? The title “A fish can’t judge the water” is a perfect analogy of the relationship between us and all…