Art x Innovation: Conditioning with Artificial Intelligence and Stupidity

Join us at Central Saint Martins for screenings of Taiwanese artist Kuang-Yu Tsui’s works, followed by a conversation exploring artificial intelligence, social conditioning and the unexpected interplay between machine intelligence and stupidity.

Every day we follow rules nobody wrote down. What happens when a machine tries to understand them?

Taiwanese artist Kuang-Yu Tsui uses humour and absurdity in performance-based video and urban interventions to expose the invisible systems shaping our behaviour. In Mimicry Elise Protocol, he asks AI to study human behaviour from a machine’s perspective. The results can seem stupid. Look again: that may be where the intelligence lies.

MA Innovation Management and Kakilang invite you to a screening and discussion with CSM students, the artist and C&G Artpartment, an independent artist-led curatorial platform, exploring the “glitch aesthetic” and how AI’s errors prompt creativity and criticality.

Screening:

• The Welcome Rain Falling from the Sky (1997)
• Eighteen Copper Guardians in Shao-Lin Temple and Penetration: The Perceptive (2001)
• Invisible City: Liverpool Top 9 (2006)
• Selected videos from Mimicry Elise Protocol (2026)

Kakilang is a non-profit arts organisation championing East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) artists and communities.

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