Anthropic To Hold Woodworking And AI Exhibition In Tokyo
Anthropic's stated aim, that the exhibition presents AI as a partner in trial and error rather than a tool for efficiency, is the company testing that claim in a physical venue where the output is judged as furniture and installation work rather than as software.
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Anthropic will hold the exhibition 'Machines of Loving Grace' at KARIMOKU RESEARCH CENTER in Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo, from Saturday, October 17 to Sunday, October 25, with free admission. Media artist Daito Manabe and design engineer Yusuke Kamiyama present new installation works. Manabe's 'Timber / Timbre' mounts a modular synthesizer in a wooden enclosure developed with KARIMOKU RESEARCH. Sponsor Karimoku Furniture provides woodworking technology.
The exhibition takes its title from an essay published in 2024 by Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei, which discusses the positive impact advanced AI could have on society.
Manabe's 'Timber / Timbre' explores what the article describes as the space between furniture and instrument: in the 1960s Karimoku Furniture manufactured piano keys and the action, the striking mechanism, and the woodworking technology from that period has been applied to furniture-making since. The work also takes in the bioelectric potentials of plants and changes in the venue environment as fluctuations in sound. Yusuke Kamiyama's 'Dance as Waves' is a kinetic installation in which three wooden structures move arms fitted with light along large arcs. The basement first floor through the ground first floor holds the new works; the second floor shows the production process and an archive of Karimoku Furniture's technology.
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