Dan Wilcox

Dan Wilcox is an American artist, engineer, musician, and performer who combines live musical performance techniques with experimental electronics and software for the exploration of new expression. He grew up in the Rocket City, and has performed in Europe, Asia, and around the US with his one man band cyborg performance project, robotcowboy.

Dan lives in Karlsruhe, Germany and is a part-time artist & researcher for the ZKM | Hertzlab.

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Sessions

09-28
16:10
30min
(Un)Trustworthy Text Labels in the Museum
Dan Wilcox

This talks presents the AI-based intervention »Flatware, Hardware, Software, Wetware« (2024) by the Hertzlab, ZKM Karlsruhe’s own department of artistic research. Through the usage of AI, we are constantly challenged to find new individual interpretations of classic »flatware«, artworks drawn for the ZKM Collection. The supposedly true description of a work shown in a smart text label is actually tongue-in-cheek AI disinformation that invites us to make our own interpretation on the institution itself.

HackThePromise Festival
Werk