Figures of History and the Grounds of Intelligence
Singapore Premiere
Ho Rui An Singapore 2024 80 min PG
A performance lecture investigating the connection between history and technology by examining AI’s generative quality.
Figures of History and the Grounds of Intelligence is a performance lecture by artist Ho Rui An that explores his longstanding interest in the circulation of images and their residual afterlives. Assisted on stage by live AI-generated images, Ho expands on an unlikely encounter with a familiar painterly figure from the National Gallery Singapore’s collection which forms the departure point of this performance.
Ho also explores the epistemic foundations of generative models, examining how historical figures evolve into repositories of ‘learning’ for AI systems. Diffusion models transform abstraction into legible representations, which invites reflection on an AI-assisted reality—one in which the future is continuously shaped by feedback loops from the past.
Figures of History and the Grounds of Intelligence was co-commissioned by the Centre Pompidou and KADIST.
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1 Dec, Sun 1:00PM / 80 min
Lasalle Creative Cube
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Figures of History and the Grounds of Intelligence
Ho Rui An
Singapore
2024
English
80 min
PG
Singapore Premiere
Ho Rui An
Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. His research examines the relations between labour, technology and capital across different systems of governance in a global age. His short film, 24 Cinematic Points of View of a Factory Gate in China (2023), was featured at the 34th SGIFF.
Ho Rui An
