“Hardware && Hardware is about the body as a machine: the body as hardware, the mind as software. I use that duality as a metaphor for AI. AI is not becoming conscious and nothing about it is ephemeral. It is calculation happening on chips. At the same time, we forget how remarkable our own bodies are as machines.
Here the machine gaze is reversed. Before, the machine looked at the human body. Now it looks at the hardware: an inner gaze, turned toward something it doesn’t realize it is running on. A model can never know what it runs on.
These figures are not a moment of becoming. They are the final destination of something that lives in between. The glitches stay visible, because I don’t want to fool anyone into thinking this is reality. I want to bring the medium to the surface.”
Ivona Tau
