Performance Space “Unseen Machine”

The Works took a bold step towards answering the question by launching ‘The Unseen Machine’ to the NSW arts community via a debate at Carriageworks.

By harnessing the power of AI, ‘The Unseen Machine’ taps into the Performance Space archive of works spanning four decades – producing new, AI enhanced art pieces that posed as the catalyst for robust debate.

Webby’s - AI, Metaverse and Virtual

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With some members of the community embracing it as an exciting evolution, others raised moral questions about its role in creative expression. Encouraging the question: should the machine be kept and celebrated as a tool for innovation, or should it be destroyed as a moral affront to the principles of human creativity?