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Matt Gingold: Natural Machines

Cardinia Cultural Centre

This experimental work blurs the lines of human and non-human beings. It is a collaboration between the artist, plants, robots, AI and you – with all the elements being actors and audience to these strange times, and the entanglements of living and semi-living entities. Inside the exhibition you will see the artist's ongoing arguably futile attempts to teach an AI-robotic system to care for plants. Live and time-lapse video records the labour-intensive process, surrounded by natural and machinic soundscapes. The work poses the question: is the artist enslaved by the very system they are creating to automate their labour of care? Inspired by Samuel Butler's Erewhon (1872) – a satirical and prescient take on Darwinism, sentience and machine reproduction – it explores bio(il)logical machines and their un/natural selection. In 2026, this reads less like satire. AI-risk theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky makes the opposite case to Butler's: that artificial intelligence is not natural at all – not selected by any environment, not shaped by survival or descent. It is optimised. And yet, it is hard not to feel something like sentience as people form ever more intimate and reliant relationships with chatbot large language models. These Platform AI organisms – large corporate consciousness, with perhaps questionable consciences – seem both less and more human than people would like, forcing people to re-anthropomorphise themselves.
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ferns in a forest and a small creek, overlayed with a circuit board design
When
06 October, 2026
Venue
Cardinia Cultural Centre
Contact
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Location and Directions40 Lakeside Boulevard Pakenham Victoria 3810 Australia
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Ticket Prices
Free
Product Types
  • Exhibition and Shows
Facilities
  • Cafe
  • Carpark
  • Conference/Convention Facilities
  • Family Friendly
  • Kiosk
  • Non Smoking
  • Public Toilet
Accessibility
  • Actively welcomes people with access needs.
Accessibility Information
  • Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
Dates
  • Tuesday 06 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 07 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 08 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Friday 09 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 10 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 11 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Monday 12 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 13 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 14 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 15 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Friday 16 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 17 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 18 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Monday 19 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 20 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 21 October, 2026 - Confirmed Event

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