Joel Kuennen
Joel Kuennen (b. 1984) is an artist, critic, curator, and editor with an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2010). Their art explores human relationships to the Earth, using autochthonous clay in site-specific land art to create artifacts that prompt reflections on deep time and celestial bodies. Kuennen's work often touches on abiogenesis, exoplanets, space colonialism, new materials, and geology. They have exhibited in the US, Mexico, Switzerland, Germany, and France, with permanent installations in the US and Europe. They have been published in notable outlets such as Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, and Frieze, and were mentored by Artnet editor Walter Robinson.
The California sea hare, a hermaphroditic sea slug, is widely used in neurological, cognitive, and memory studies. It releases a purple ink when threatened, similar to Tyrian Purple from the Murex sea snail, once the most expensive pigment in the world. This sea hare’s value, however, lies in its use as a laboratory animal due to its small nervous system, which has only 20,000 neurons, yet it can remember, learn, and problem solve. In contrast, AI services like Chat GPT 4 have the equivalent of 100 billion neurons.
AlphaFold, an AI developed by Google DeepMind predicted that these proteins are involved in the sea hare's estrogen production, memory suppression, and ion exchange. Joel Kuennen' work Predictive Life and Synthetic Memories highlight the interplay between AI-led synthetic biology and real-life biology, raising questions about the nature of reality and future evolutionary paradigms.
喬爾·庫恩恩（1984年出生）是一位藝術家、評論家、策展人和編輯，2010年獲得芝加哥藝術學院視覺與批判研究碩士學位。他的藝術探索人與地球的關係，使用原生黏土進行大地藝術的限地創作，製作出引發人們對深時和天體反思的物件。庫恩恩的作品常常涉及自然發生、生物起源、太陽系外行星、太空殖民、新材料和地質學等主題。他的作品曾在美國、墨西哥、瑞士、德國和法國展出，並在美國和歐洲設有永久性裝置。他的文章發表於《美國藝術》、《布魯克林鐵軌》和《Frieze》等著名刊物，並曾受Artnet編輯Walter Robinson的指導。
加州海兔是一種雌雄同體的海蛞蝓，被廣泛應用於神經、認知和記憶研究中。當受到威脅時，牠會釋放出紫色的墨汁，類似於世界上曾經最昂貴的顏料——由寶螺蝸牛產生的骨螺紫 (Tyrian Purple)，除此之外，雖然牠的小型神經系統僅有2萬個神經元，卻能記憶、學習和解決問題。相比之下，Chat GPT4 則擁有相當於1000億個神經元。
由 Google DeepMind 開發的人工智能 AlphaFold 預測這些蛋白質參與了海兔的雌激素生成、記憶抑制和離子交換。藝術家喬爾·庫恩恩的作品〈Predictive Life and Synthetic Memories〉突顯了人工智能引領的合成生物學與現實生物學之間的相互作用，提出了關於現實本質和未來進化範式的問題。
⭢ Main Page
⭢ Participated Artist
The California sea hare, a hermaphroditic sea slug, is widely used in neurological, cognitive, and memory studies. It releases a purple ink when threatened, similar to Tyrian Purple from the Murex sea snail, once the most expensive pigment in the world. This sea hare’s value, however, lies in its use as a laboratory animal due to its small nervous system, which has only 20,000 neurons, yet it can remember, learn, and problem solve. In contrast, AI services like Chat GPT 4 have the equivalent of 100 billion neurons.
AlphaFold, an AI developed by Google DeepMind predicted that these proteins are involved in the sea hare's estrogen production, memory suppression, and ion exchange. Joel Kuennen' work Predictive Life and Synthetic Memories highlight the interplay between AI-led synthetic biology and real-life biology, raising questions about the nature of reality and future evolutionary paradigms.
喬爾·庫恩恩（1984年出生）是一位藝術家、評論家、策展人和編輯，2010年獲得芝加哥藝術學院視覺與批判研究碩士學位。他的藝術探索人與地球的關係，使用原生黏土進行大地藝術的限地創作，製作出引發人們對深時和天體反思的物件。庫恩恩的作品常常涉及自然發生、生物起源、太陽系外行星、太空殖民、新材料和地質學等主題。他的作品曾在美國、墨西哥、瑞士、德國和法國展出，並在美國和歐洲設有永久性裝置。他的文章發表於《美國藝術》、《布魯克林鐵軌》和《Frieze》等著名刊物，並曾受Artnet編輯Walter Robinson的指導。
加州海兔是一種雌雄同體的海蛞蝓，被廣泛應用於神經、認知和記憶研究中。當受到威脅時，牠會釋放出紫色的墨汁，類似於世界上曾經最昂貴的顏料——由寶螺蝸牛產生的骨螺紫 (Tyrian Purple)，除此之外，雖然牠的小型神經系統僅有2萬個神經元，卻能記憶、學習和解決問題。相比之下，Chat GPT4 則擁有相當於1000億個神經元。
由 Google DeepMind 開發的人工智能 AlphaFold 預測這些蛋白質參與了海兔的雌激素生成、記憶抑制和離子交換。藝術家喬爾·庫恩恩的作品〈Predictive Life and Synthetic Memories〉突顯了人工智能引領的合成生物學與現實生物學之間的相互作用，提出了關於現實本質和未來進化範式的問題。
⭢ Main Page
⭢ Participated Artist