Emotion Harvest, Sullivan+Strumpf, Melbourne, 14 September – 21 October 2023.

Emotion Harvest brings together a collection of artworks revolving around artificial intelligence (AI) and emotions. The show includes paintings and interactive artworks that incorporate and critique AI, extending an ongoing investigation into the relationship between AI and art, and how art can be used to investigate the impact of AI on human output, relationships and creativity. The exhibition includes both complex and primitive forms of AI, from facial recognition and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to Large Language Models (LLMs), and makes historical connections to early automata such as de Vaucanson's eighteenth-century duck.

Vaucanson Duck Fight, 2023, oil on wood, 40cm x 30cm

bear with puffin automata, 2023, oil on linen, 240cm x 180cm

fruit preservation, 2023, oil on linen, 240cm x 175cm

Relaxed Polar Bear, 2023, oil on linen, 101cm x 79cm

100% Bat, 2023, oil on wood, 40cm x 30cm

Rabbit is Bat, 2023, oil on wood, 40cm x 30cm

blue stochastic parrot, 2023, oil on wood

Robot Hondecoeter Ducks, 2023, oil on wood

Emotion Harvest, installation view, Sullivan+Strumpf, Melbourne, 2023. Photography: Astrid Mulder

Duck Automaton, 2023, bronze, electronics, antique lectern, 50cm x 50cm x 160cm