FRAME captures Ai Weiwei’s latest work, a project that confronts him with an AI. Over the course of 81 days, the length of Ai’s incarceration in a Chinese prison, the artist will pose 81 questions to the artificial intelligence (AI) and the audience, streamed on Piccadilly Lights, every night at 8:24pm (local time). Inspired by the Tiānwèn (天問, translated as ‘The Questions of Heaven’ or ‘Questions to Heaven’), a series of 172 questions to the gods written on the walls of a temple some 2300 years ago by the legendary poet Qu Yuan, Ai Wei Wei’s work focuses on the ‘freedom to ask questions’.
Ai Weiwei, Ai vs AI, 2023, CIRCA Commission, image via
