Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence by Doug Fishbone (2018) is a machine that dispenses wisdom in return for a 10-cent investment. A short meditation on time, impermanence and loss, it was originally installed on the main square in Halle (Saale), Germany, where it was commissioned by the Werkleitz Festival 2018. Spanning from the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 to the shortages of sausages in the German Democratic Republic to the Mahabharata, the short film shown on the machine offers an unusual perspective on the rise and fall of human civilization through the prism of the chaos of 20th-century Europe.