Two robotic arms equipped with cameras attempt to recognise and track one another. Their neural networks retrain using new observations. Approaches, withdrawals and pauses form a choreography of recognition.
The suggestion of love belongs to the work’s artistic fiction. It questions our tendency to read attachment into technical behaviour, and the way relationships develop through repetition.
Documentation source: https://www.dwbowen.com/thetwo
Image: David Bowen, documentation vidéo / video documentation.