Artist Statement

My critical research on emotionality towards machines is based on affective influence on viewers to give them a hint of being manipulated, to bring reflections on the present technological pursuit. People rely on technology more than on themselves. We begin to treat technological gadgets as individual beings with their own rights. In a contact with semi intelligent technology we tend to give up the common sense and easily treat them like sentiment beings. We tend to believe technology even if we don’t understand how it works.
Art questions consequences of speeding technological development. Technology becomes unseen, and makes us shape our behaviour to match it up.
What if interface creates invisible borders for a human subjected to the robot and prohibit independent actions in the world? What would have happened if the AI limit our decisions making possibilities? And what if it will perfect itself with manipulating on our emotions?

• Przemysław Jasielski (born 1970), artist, researcher, experimenter based in Poland combining art with science and technology. Member of HAT Research Center. He creates installations, objects, drawings and photographs. In the creative process he approaches work with the attitude of an engineer, adapting the precise planning and scientific research, with the main focus on the conceptual content. His works confront the actual present reality with its transformation to allow the viewer to observe it in a new, fresh way, they usually contain a specific, critical sense of humour. Jasielski took part in several exhibitions – among others, one man shows such as Paper Bridge at Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo, Japan, 2012), Analog Immigration at CSU Galleries (Cleveland OH, USA, 2013), and group shows – L’arte differente: MOCAK al MAXXI at MAXXI (Rome, Italy, 2016), Draft Systems at WRO Media Art Biennale 2017 (Wroclaw, Poland, 2017), Nonsense Technologies at MOCAK (Krakow, Poland, 2017). jasielski.com

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