In October 2018 I covered the premiere of Pierre Huyghe’s UUmwelt—an environmental installation exploring a symbiosis between organic and artificial intelligences—at Serpentine Galleries in London for The Brooklyn Rail.
After reading the article, Claudia Schmuckli, Curator-in-Charge of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, invited me to write about Huyghe’s earlier sculpture Exomind (Deep Water), which The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum acquired for its landmark exhibition “Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI.”
Although independent texts, each essay explores themes connecting Huyghe’s different bodies of work. I consider them companion pieces.
UUmwelt at Serpentine Galleries
Exomind at The de Young Museum (PDF)
