Contemporary art and artificial intelligence meet at MAXXI in Rome

The exploration of the narrative and creative potential of artificial intelligence is one of the threads that emerges most from the works on show. Could you tell us which works best express this topic and what were the criteria for selecting the winners? When you enter the Corner room of MAXXI, where the exhibition is currently taking place, you are immediately struck by a number of aspects, first and foremost the multiplicity of approaches, which are very different from each other, and then an apparent absence of technology itself. All this stems precisely from the fact that each of the works on display builds a narrative of its own which is the result of a different view of the subject and of the themes linked to the world of AI. It is no coincidence that the work of the first classified, the Entangled Others, invites us to imagine new forms of coexistence within coral reefs: the result that emerges from the lucid dream of a neural network, is surprising. Irene Fenara's work is based on a narrative borrowed from experience, the phenomenon of the extinction of tigers, which the artist reinterprets in a failed attempt to preserve a digital memory.