Fluid identities, immersive environments, and the human condition in the digital world: These are the themes that lie at the heart of this DLD26 conversation between artist Colette Lumière and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London.
Obrist highlights how Lumière has innovated the concept of “avatarization” and adopting multiple identities in a purely analog way, long before the Internet even existed.
“I was a painter first”, Lumière explains, “but then, very soon after, I started including myself in the canvas in my early paintings.” Over the decades, she adopted numerous personas to navigate the art world and process personal and global events.
Addressing modern anxieties about technological supremacy, she offers a human-centric perspective: “We can’t be worried about AI”, Lumière says. “We need to worry about ourselves, each one of us, to clean up our own backyard. Because as long as we’re having wars and killing each other, what do we expect AI to do?”
Watch the video to explore this conversation in detail.
