ARTWORK DETAILS
David Aston
Attest you are human (9 attestations on humanity in the age of RoBots)
Nine printed porcelain plates
65 H x 65 W x 3 D CM
2019

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Visitors to the Brooklyn, New York, Other Art Fair 2018 were given the opportunity to attest their humanity by submitting an online attestation answering ‘what does it mean to be human in the age of RoBots’. 

More than 200 visitors participated and shared their often profound thoughts. Their attestations have been incorporated into a specially commissioned art book and a series of commemorative porcelain plates.

The plates include two figures representing humanity (Venus) and robots standing either side of the tree of life. The figures and motifs are taken from historical western and Chinese, Han, Ming and Ching dynasty cultures. Together they symbolise a modern day Adam and Eve and mark a point where humanity meets artificial intelligence, past meets the present and future, and globalisation as east converges with west.

PUBLICATIONS

The book 211 Attestations on what it means to be human in the age of RoBots is available to view on blurb.