Exploring the relationship between AI and humans through art... Hanwha Foundation of Culture and Anthropic unveil new exhibition

[Financial News] An exhibition exploring the relationship between AI and humans through art is set to open. Five teams of Korean artists use video, installations and extended reality (XR), among other formats, to revisit how AI works and what goals the technology pursues.■ Turning Questions in AI Research into ArtAccording to Hanwha Foundation of Culture on the 21st, the art commission exhibition 'AS ___ AS POSSIBLE,' developed in collaboration with Anthropic, will run from the 23rd to November 13 on the G and first floors of Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.
The exhibition title means 'as ___ as possible,' with the blank allowing for different criteria such as 'accurately,' 'easy to understand' and 'desirable.' The participating artists explore 'interpretability'—understanding AI’s internal workings—and 'alignment,' ensuring AI conforms to human intentions and values.
The project came about following the two organizations’ joint hosting of the 'Seoul Research Salon.' Anthropic sponsored the production and helped the artists use its AI model Claude. This is Anthropic’s first collaborative project with a Korean arts and culture foundation.
Anthropic is also a collaborating partner in the Art + Technology Lab at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in the United States, supporting artists’ experiments combining art and technology.
■ Five Teams’ Perspectives Expressed Through Video, Installations and XRMirim Chu’s 'Searching for a New Route' takes its title from a navigation prompt shown when a traveler strays from their route. Working with Claude, the artist deciphers the calculations behind an animation that automatically connects two forms, then alters the order in which lines connect and the timing between them to create forms that stray from the optimal path.
Kahee Jeong’s '103 Early Hints' is an installation featuring 103 miniature monitors suspended from above. Its title comes from an HTTP status code that a server sends before its final response. Each screen presents a short scene and a status code, but the code does not explain the scene’s background. Interpretation is left to the audience.
Through a Monopoly game video and the vibrations of sound transmitted through a floor structure, Nam Min-o reflects on attempts to understand reality through limited rules. Inhwa Yeom presents a virtual world where different neurotypes and intelligences meet, combining an augmented reality (AR) walking platform with an AI healing guide.
Ubak Studio overlays pedestrians from digital maps onto a device with multiple rotating layers of screens. Even as the screens move, the images remain in the same place in space. Walking around the work, visitors can experience in three dimensions the figures of people who passed through one place at different times.
“We will continue to expand the foundation’s programming scope in support of contemporary artists’ creative work,” said Seong-su Lee, chairman of Hanwha Foundation of Culture.

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