Sapient: Recycle Group

In solo exhibition Sapient, Recycle Group deliver visions of a utopia conjured by an eternal AI. Reflecting on the power-imbalances and opacity of current governmental structures, the artists conceived Sapient, an imagined open-code algorithm combining the will of the living and the infinite to enact bureaucratic rulings. Supplanting orthodox government, Sapient would offer a transparent democracy steered by real people and sustained by post-death data and consciousness uploads to the meta-world. A continuation of conceptual investigations by Recycle Group – spanning Venice Biennale and Pompidou interventions – at its core Sapient aims to explore how technology could improve political fault lines.