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Installation views and works of "Format Error occurred at offset" by Chen Zirui, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery."
What begins as a seemingly straightforward desktop documentary quickly spirals into something far more unsettling. Chen Zirui’s Format Error Occurred at Offset dissects how governments collect, control, and distort our images, exposing the fragile and ambiguous nature of identity within bureaucratic systems. In stark contrast, the work interrogates the ways AI image generation is used in the art and culture industries. Culture is not just defined by what it creates, but by what it destroys—and in the AI-driven future, it’s the human subject who disappears first. Beneath the shiny promises of progress, what’s already here is a more efficient, globalized exploitation of the self, and within the paradigm of capitalism, this is often performed under the guise of innovation.
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