Lawrence Lek: NOX | Conversation with artist Lawrence Lek and Professor Iyad Rahwan

In their conversation on 27 October 2023, artist Lawrence Lek and Iyad Rahwan (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Founder and Director of the Center for Humans & Machines) delve into the world of NOX and its underlying themes of intelligent machines, smart systems and Interspecies collaboration.
How can speculation and worldbuilding help us explore growing human-machine interdependencies? How do we imagine the psychological, moral and political ramifications of a smart city reality built on automation and surveillance? How distant might a future be, in which machines could feel emotions - and would they be capable of evoking them in us humans?The conversation invites us to explore the universe of NOX and the actors operating within it, and to question how agency, consciousness and empathy might develop in a world shaped by AI.
Credit: Lawrence Lek, NOX, 2023. © Lawrence Lek. Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation.