PULSE Projects: Analog to AI

Telfair’s 2024 PULSE Festival includes several recent artist projects that have emerged on the local scene to address our relationship with technology, from artists using AI tools to those finding new inspiration in earlier tech from animated GIFs to LEDs. Works include Will Penny’s Small Talk which crosses a kitsch electronic toy with AI that encourages visitors to interact. The group project Posthumanism presents a cyberpunk aesthetic of tubes, wires, and screens, and incorporates the viewer’s image into AI-generated texts. Katie Hagen’s Glow is an LED sculpture that references weaving, while Bryce Winters’ A Lossy Existence features a series of GIFs which pose questions about human experience.