“What would a chameleon do when confronted with its own reflection?” This question, posed decades ago by an expert in control systems, inspired Agnieszka Kurant’s ‘Recursivity 3,’ a standout sculpture in her current solo show at Marian Goodman Gallery that features a chameleon whose color changes based on information provided by AI. Using various sets of AI-gathered data, Kurant considers aspects of human and animal life from new angles, for example, via a video featuring new language based on patterns of thousands of existing tongues and a panel with designs that are constantly altered by data gathered from wild animals via GPS, drones and other technologies. Like the chameleon, humanity’s behavior is shaped by information gathered in real time and by future predictions; Kurant turns the flood of data into a portrait both complicated and illuminating. (On view through March 21st).
