As artificial intelligence completes its pervasive incursion into the post-digital landscape, its epistemic tremors are radically reconfiguring the parameters of creative praxis. Confronting this techno-cultural watershed with critical ambivalence, Artunnel (Xiangxiang Huang, Zijian Chen, Xinyi Liu, Yupei Liang) conceptualized Human-Machine Co-Creation – an exhibition staged within Fringe Arts Bath that interrogates the porous boundaries between algorithmic agency and artistic intentionality.

The exhibition envisions a ‘post-human’ era, focusing on the society of human beings together with advanced technology. Through twelve artists’ works, the exhibition outlines a future world scenario, demonstrates the communication and conflict between humans and machines, and explores the profound issues of identity, consciousness, emotion, and group memory under the driving force of technology.
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, our world is changing at an alarming rate. We can’t accurately speculate what the world will look like years from now, but nothing can stop us from imagining it. What will the human environment be like? What will be the role of Artificial Intelligence when it joins our remaining society? This is a controversial and ethical issue. What kind of sparks and conflicts will arise between humans and humans, between humans and AI (machines), and between AI (machines) and AI (machines)?
When cooperation and contradiction between different subjective consciousnesses arise, internal intensification will be manifested externally, and in this case, what would happen in our external world, such as the natural environment, social order, urban civilization, etc.? The exploration and creation of these profound questions will be insightfully presented in this exhibition.Through diverse media such as digital media art, visual art, interactive installation and human-computer interaction, the exhibition presents a show that integrates multi-sensory experiences and forms.

The exhibition discusses the potential changes brought by AI to human society in three sections: the human living environment, control and loss of control of machines, and spiritual civilization in the age of machines. In HYPOXIA, Jiayi Lin presents a world of stark industrial aesthetics. He constructs a future society where oxygen is commodified by the capitalist class, where it becomes a resource controlled by power and capital, and where even breathing becomes a luxury, so can mankind still hold the future in its own hands? The short film aims to provoke contemplation among viewers regarding future ecological crises, resource monopolies, and the impact of capital on living spaces. In terms of machine control and loss of control, Museum of the Future Human Body discusses the impact of digital technology and electronics on the human body and mind. Zhiyang Ding, the creator of the work, further predicts the future evolution of the human body and builds a museum of future evolution. He has noticed that the overuse of these electronic devices not only affects people psychologically, but the human physical body is also gradually changing. In Ventriloquist Ontology, Afroditi Psarra probes the limits of control between humans and machines through the relationship of a performer and a wearable entity. This entity articulates AI-generated text trained on biopolitics, algo-governance, and queer theory which manifests with involuntary movement through a series of linear actuators. In the area of spiritual civilization, HERTZ’S TRAJECTORY is a visualization experiment of city soundscape by artist Bai Liu. The work integrates Liu’s interdisciplinary critique encompassing music computing, geospatial analysis, site-specific art, and AI art. This experimental program focuses on the profound topic of exploring the relationship between individual identity and urban environment.




With the proliferation of technology, changes in the human living environment accurs, we are struggling with the control and loss of control of machines, and patterns that express human perceptions and desires change, will the longstanding perceptions and beliefs of human beings be reconfigured?
Artunnel, an art platform dedicated to promoting Sino-British art and cultural exchanges, focuses on the emergence of new artists and supports the growth of outstanding artists. Through various exhibitions and events held in China and the UK, Artunnel provides a wide range of opportunities for artists to showcase their work, and at the same time connects artists with collectors, curators, and art organizations, expanding the influence of artists and deepening international art communication.
The exhibition began on May 23rd, 2025 at Old Post Office in Bath and will run through June 7th, 2025.
Participating artists include Shontelle Xintong Cai, Zhiyang Ding, Junya Duan, Bai Liu, Jiayi Lin, Afroditi Psarra, Ash Xu, Jiatong Yao, Gehao Zhang (Performer Yiyi), ANTICHRISTIE, ASYCD, and Slyesis & EGO & Sonya (collaborative work). Together, they offer a multifaceted perspective on the evolving dynamics of human-machine co-creation.
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