THE AI* AI* AI* (INTELLIGENCE* TO WEAR) PROJECT
For this project and exhibition at Galerie Marzee, The Extranalities Collective chose the Ai tool as the ‘material’ to confront, research, debate, challenge and to make jewellery artifacts from.
Some relished this challenge of the unknown, while others feared its implications. But like a smell in a room, it couldn’t be ignored! Now was the time to hold their noses and/or smell the roses, as they tackled the thorny subject of Ai.
With jewellery as their only method, medium and/or weapon, the nine jewellers of Extranalities, in collaboration with their invited ‘joker’, the great Ai itself, conspired to produce jewellery that exists to ask the question of whether Ai is our servant, or our ruler. Or perhaps, just a passing stranger ….. .
* NB. This text has not been written by a Chatgpt. Or has it?
THE EXTRANALITIES COLLECTIVE
The Extranalities Collective is a European jewellery group that explores and investigates the jewellery discipline through dialogue and making.
The collective started when Herman from the Netherlands asked Tim from the UK to share an exhibition. And then Herman and Tim asked Peter from Belgium to join them for another exhibition. And then so on and so forth, until the Collective also included Felieke, Denise, Catarina, Sofia, Sara and Christoph, making it 9 different jewellers from 9 different countries.
The Extranalities Collective have now staged 15 jewellery exhibitions in 9 different countries, covering many different themes. Each collaborative project starts with a different approach or subject, e.g. the exchange of random photographs or mystery materials, a study of bubble wrap(!).
For each project a temporary tenth member, known as the ‘joker’, is invited to join the Extranalities Collective.
