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Project 3 – Gallery
This provocative exhibition explores the blurred boundaries between human and machine knowledge, the gallery and the public space, challenging our assumptions about authenticity, and truth.
Featuring artefacts born from human-AI collaboration, it asks: is this knowledge, deception – or just cleverly disguised nonsense? With a playful but critical edge, the exhibition invites visitors to question who controls meaning in an era where machines generate content, influence opinion, and shape reality. It challenges us to think about what counts as knowledge and whose knowledge is important.
As the line between fact and fiction thins, FACSIMILE is a timely reflection on power, perception, and a strange new logic of an artificial age.
- Open Daily: Friday 23 to Wednesday 28 May, 11am – 5pm (Sunday 12 – 4pm)
- Centrespace Gallery & Studios, Bristol (view map)
Private View: Friday 23 May, 8pm – 10pm
What can we learn about ourselves from engagements with artefacts that challenge understandings of what counts as knowledge and whose knowledge is important.
Using a paradox (Schrödinger, 1935) it becomes possible to consider that social reality can only exist in a liminal state until knowledge and nonsense are scrutinised. Given this, what is construed as social reality thus remains a negotiated space where beliefs and values remain in a state of epistemic ‘superposition’ (Shkliarevsky, 2010) until they are collapsed to being understood as either credible knowledge or exposed as fiction.
The aim of this paper is therefore to present nonsense as being socially constructed in the same way as knowledge and argue that when (mis)perceived and taken as a form of knowledge, nonsense develops an understanding of reality and shapes actions and behaviours.
