Artists Naho Matsuda and Neale Willis explore systems of power and AI limitations in Derby exhibition

Naho Matsuda and Neale Willis present 'Error & Power' at Artcore Gallery in Derby, an exhibition examining punishment, obedience, and artificial intelligence limitations through works created during an online residency. Matsuda's video installation 'Please Continue' (2020) revisits Stanley Milgram's 1961 Yale psychology experiments on obedience, using word pairs from the study to create visual interpretations devoid of violence. Her 'Blue Girl' series includes 'Firm, but not impolite' (2020), featuring redacted blueprints that obscure human figures and instructional texts. Neale Willis explores AI-human collaboration by having a computer analyze Zoopla property website bathroom photos to create dream-like amalgams, highlighting algorithmic errors requiring artist correction. The exhibition references Philip K. Dick's 1968 sci-fi novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' while contrasting with contemporary AI developments like Google's DeepDream and Facebook's SEER. Elon Musk's concerns about AI as an existential threat are noted alongside the artists' focus on empathetic human-computer labor exchange. The show runs until September 4 at Artcore in Derby, presented as part of ArtReview's Remark platform in collaboration with BACKLIT for East Midlands art writing.