Dorin Baba visual artistMnemos-IT (multimedia installation) SNAC 2023 - Romanian Contemporary Art Salon, Bucharest, Romania LSR 2024, Baia Turcească, Iasi „Nicolae Gane” Museum (Iasi Art Gallery) Mnemos-IT The accelerated evolution of life, beyond the present form and limitations, to experience new states of consciousness in relation to existence, represents a human vision about to happen. Man does not want to be just an historical object in space and time; in relation to his possible existence, he wishes to transcend through repeated reconfigurations the physical plane that limits him. The perspective of upgrading physical and intellectual limits by intersecting the intelligence of living matter with the technical force of artificial intelligence creates the transevolutionary projection of life, as a limitless expansion, theorized by contemporary philosophy through two concepts: the abandonment of Darwinian destiny and the direction of the human vector towards an ideal world. In the last decades, researchers, scientists and philosophers have tried to define a technological entity similar to the human being, which would radically exceed the limits reached by man in the biological stage, in order to transcend the natural human condition. The installation is a robotic sculpture with IT memory, built from mechanical and electronic components (hardware), acrylic and silicone compounds that, based on acoustic and visual sensors, memorizes and develops a language of communication through movement and voice, drawing attention to the colossus that analyzes, memorizes, learns and integrates into our daily life—artificial intelligence. In a broader view, "Mnemos-IT" can be considered a contemporary deity of memory and language, like the deity Mnemosyne of Greek antiquity, credited with words and memorization to preserve history, with a memorization capacity that surpasses much the biological, human ones. (Dorin Baba) 
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