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Art That Imagines New Ways of Living with Machines | Anicka Yi | TED

Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life forms. Her floating “aerobes” inspire us to think about new ways of living with machines — and to ponder how they could evolve into living creatures. “What if our machines could be…

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Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life forms. Her floating “aerobes” inspire us to think about new ways of living with machines — and to ponder how they could evolve into living creatures. “What if our machines could be more than just our tools, and instead, a new type of companion species?” she asks.

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54 Comments

  1. ntblood

    August 23, 2022 at 3:14 pm

    Shut it down before it’s too late! humans must be “compatible” with the machines or they’ll eat your heat signature.
    Looks like Half-life.. shoot them turkey-heads

  2. MrVlax22

    August 23, 2022 at 3:21 pm

    They are useless. I don’t get it. What is the point?

  3. Sihem Bouaoud

    August 23, 2022 at 3:39 pm

    I don’t understand why didn’t she make a conversation with this aerobe she said it is like human being so no need to bring it and show it to the audience without experiencing it.

  4. KootFloris

    August 23, 2022 at 3:45 pm

    Brilliant! Awesome! And sadly in some backroom industrialists are considering how to exploit this for their own benefit, or control crowds.

  5. Taylor Everard

    August 23, 2022 at 4:11 pm

    It’s a nice thought, but technologies aren’t created to make our lives better OR connect “each and every one of us”. They are created as a means to an end, whether that’s MRI machines to save lives or guns to take them – technology is not inherently good and we ought to start thinking about it that way otherwise we will end up in cyberpunk.

  6. Chris Toro

    August 23, 2022 at 4:11 pm

    Guyver???

  7. Ed Nolen

    August 23, 2022 at 4:34 pm

    These things are not creatures. They are machines that are made by humans, programmed by humans to do what the humans want them to do. They do not think in any way. They cannot self replicate. As such they are not creatures – they are just programmable drones made by the artist and her tam “team” and nothing more. They do not have distinct personalities as the artist/presenter/shill states. Any “personality” they present is programmed in. Who is paying her for this “art”. This yet again a piece of TED crap.

  8. The Sudanese Prince

    August 23, 2022 at 5:18 pm

    Oh my God, its one of syndrome’s flipping omnidroids!

  9. Caralyn Schwartz

    August 23, 2022 at 5:19 pm

    we need a rise in humanity, not a rise in technology

  10. Yash

    August 23, 2022 at 5:19 pm

    the more innocent u try to make it, the more afraid of it i will be
    for it’s not its look that threaten me, it’s your greed and manipulations
    – me right now

  11. G_Dash Tatum

    August 23, 2022 at 5:28 pm

    “We are afraid of technology because we are afraid of ourselves”🤔

  12. nitemare khawk

    August 23, 2022 at 5:31 pm

    This looks amazing to be honest and I would like to have one. I wonder how much something like this goes for. I want to go to a live tedtalk someday

  13. Rafael Moro

    August 23, 2022 at 5:37 pm

    So instead of work in the stunning life of this planet, we make aquarium of robots? I understand the art appeal, and beauty but don’t make any sense for me the speech.

  14. SirGraveson

    August 23, 2022 at 5:56 pm

    i like the idea, but im sure it would take just a few Karens with arachnophobia complaining about “flying spiders” to ruin this project

  15. GetFuzed !

    August 23, 2022 at 6:01 pm

    She played to much horizon ✔️

  16. Javier Granf

    August 23, 2022 at 6:16 pm

    Succssss

  17. Karyl Balara

    August 23, 2022 at 6:34 pm

    Awesome.. I also loved the way she talks:)

  18. Karyl Balara

    August 23, 2022 at 6:36 pm

    Her pronouncition tho|WOW|

  19. Turned 0FF

    August 23, 2022 at 6:44 pm

    Focusing on all this tech while ignoring human-made problems. Disgusting.

  20. missmf

    August 23, 2022 at 7:19 pm

    nice

  21. eleven

    August 23, 2022 at 8:52 pm

    Good god. We are doomed.

  22. 우니

    August 23, 2022 at 9:01 pm

    It’s such an amzing art work and speech! Well, we are living in the world surrouded by tons of techs, but we hardly think about the relationship btw the techs n human… This speech gave me a moment to think about the hidden meaning in the relationship.. Now, the Ai tech is under such a fast development that soon we will face with the machine with human like emotion.. then the relationship will be the first priority to make the balanced life style.

  23. आदित्यAditya मेहेंदळेMehendale #BringBackDislikes

    August 23, 2022 at 9:45 pm

    The reluctance for adopting some technologies is not a consequence of their “lack of softness”. This reeks of sponsored lobbying.

  24. Trina Holiday

    August 23, 2022 at 10:47 pm

    No thanks, next

  25. Alex Oates

    August 24, 2022 at 1:43 am

    Jobotruebakee

  26. Andrei Dumitriu

    August 24, 2022 at 2:16 am

    Non sens …

  27. Prachi Bajpai

    August 24, 2022 at 3:42 am

    Her communication skills is so soft and understandable. I’m so much impressed with the way she has described about that technology.

  28. Taieb najafi

    August 24, 2022 at 5:15 am

    It really scares me when I see that we take life and resources from living things and trying to give to machines and non-living things.
    Terrible work.

  29. 洛倾雪

    August 24, 2022 at 8:41 am

    sincerely agree with Miss. Anicka Yi

  30. The Man w/No Name

    August 24, 2022 at 11:41 am

    2022(G)

  31. YONG CHEN SENG

    August 24, 2022 at 12:36 pm

    This look like the ship in guyver

  32. Aloria Stockman

    August 24, 2022 at 12:57 pm

    I dislike that they want 2 bring machine and kill plants and living things. These will be the end of human kind

  33. Aloria Stockman

    August 24, 2022 at 12:58 pm

    The world would have been so beautiful before all of this technology

  34. Milosh01

    August 24, 2022 at 1:40 pm

    Well machine muscles are 100 times stronger than humans, and if they get emotions, they gonna have one of the biggest human problem, Greed

  35. Big Country Mountain Man

    August 24, 2022 at 3:10 pm

    That was an awesome video Until the end, when it got cringy because she was making out with it. Whoa

  36. Paxton Anthony Murphy

    August 24, 2022 at 4:32 pm

    This is very creepy in a “War of the Worlds” kind of way! We may very well become the slaves of the machines! Anicka Yi could be an agent that they have planted into our world to advocate for the aerobes and lull us into a false sense of comfort!

  37. ElvenArcher

    August 24, 2022 at 5:40 pm

    so this is horizon sub plot…

  38. Dan Miller

    August 25, 2022 at 1:54 am

    I guess it’s a cultural thing, but these things conjure fear and terror in me. They remind me of the War of the Worlds invasion, the repulsive egg sacs in the Alien movie franchise and the human battery coffins in the Matrix.

    I even had an instinctual revulsion to her purple top. I feel an evolutionary urge to avoid spindly fuzzy dusty stringy purplish things as a poison or danger alert, similar to cockroach antennae or a virus molecule.

    I was not raised in an environment where squid tentacles, eels and jellyfish are deemed “cute”. They are gross and repulsive like slime and snot and are reminiscent of disease. I do see these things as scientifically interesting, so I guess I can view them maybe as beautiful through that lens… like a mechanical beauty. Just keep them away from me please.

  39. Nora Hu

    August 25, 2022 at 5:39 am

    I still remember I was attracted by them in the Tate Modern and spent hours to observe them through the windows. They are charming and your eyes cannot leave them. You just want to know how they can be so soft and gentle driven by technology.

    • The Cinematic Mind

      August 29, 2022 at 8:24 pm

      It was refreshing to see a moving artwork around the Tate.

  40. Flinty Custard

    August 25, 2022 at 7:37 am

    No thanks , not needed : I prefer the real world ,without trying to copy/complicate/compensate/innovate/initiate a new one : The real world has no match .

  41. Erich TheCat

    August 25, 2022 at 3:22 pm

    eeek, I dont want to be turned off !!!!!

  42. Dee7

    August 25, 2022 at 7:57 pm

    She sounds like a robot 😳 jk but this is an idea worth taking a lot of time to think about why this is necessary

  43. victormorelo666

    August 26, 2022 at 2:27 pm

    What is the function of this? Sorry I missed something?🤔

  44. SendTheAsteroid

    August 26, 2022 at 5:45 pm

    “New species” lol

    One of those Ted talks then

  45. RubberDog

    August 27, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    Have you seen the movie “fantastic planet“?

  46. Victor Blake

    August 28, 2022 at 6:58 am

    For sure I would be talking to one of those things within a month.

  47. J L

    August 28, 2022 at 6:23 pm

    how is that a useful machine? maybe for a weather balloon but not the machines that will work and make money

  48. The Cinematic Mind

    August 29, 2022 at 8:24 pm

    Nice to see a Tate Modern comission continue outside of Tate.

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