"Ian Cheng: Worlding" Installation View ©Ian Cheng
Leeum Museum of Art will showcase the works of the American artist Ian Cheng for the first time in Asia. The Exhibition “Ian Cheng: Worlding” will be on view from March 2, 2022 to July 3, 2022.
Ian Cheng, who studied cognitive science, works with game design, interactive technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) to create artificial lifeforms. The artist raises questions of the meaning of progress and perceptions through self-operating video games and by creating an AI creature “whose personality, body and life script evolve across exhibitions,” according to his official website.
His works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Migros Museum in Zurich, and other institutions.
