Exhibitions
Between the human and the synthetic: the digital double in MALI
The Lima Art Museum has created reconFIGURE. Transforming the Relationship Between Body and Environment , a spectacular, immersive, and interactive installation that explores how artificial intelligence and technology affect our perceptions of our bodies and our surroundings.
Until September 7, a sensorial and conceptual experience organized in collaboration with Immersive Arts Space and the Zurich University of the Arts will be on display in Room 3 on the first floor. Bodily and digital identity, doppelganger reflection, and the relationship with AI are the central themes of the MALI exhibition.
Photography by Chris Salter.
Through a front-facing camera, reconFIGURE visitors will see their silhouette captured and transformed into a three-dimensional avatar animated by machine learning algorithms. Encountering doppelgängers creates an ambiguous experience, revealing the limits of human representation in computational environments.
Drawing on theories of contemporary art and technological philosophy, reconFIGURE addresses concepts such as the digital doppelgänger, the AI "black box," and the uncanny valley effect. Conceived as a two-stage experience—the capture and transformation of the body image and its subsequent reanimation in an audiovisual environment—the installation explores how computational systems capture, manipulate, and redefine human bodies in the digital age.
Art, technology, philosophy, and social criticism come together in reconFIGURE. Transforming the Relationship between Body and Environment , where the critical strand examines the impact of emerging technologies on our current perception of identity, the body, and truth.
