Consider the following two videos How We Can Teach Computers to Make Sense of Our Emotions Links to an external site., by Raphael Arar and An Art Made of Trust, Vulnerability and Connection Links to an external site., by Marina Abramovic. Elaborate on how each of the speakers is exploring human emotion and reaction in their work. How does the viewer or audience factor or contribute to the artwork experience? Answers should be in paragraph form with 250- 500 words. Please cite all sources in APA format. (Assignment time expectation: 1-2 hours) How can we make AI that people actually want to interact with? Raphael Arar suggests we start by making art. He shares interactive projects that help AI explore complex ideas like nostalgia, intuition and conversation — all working towards the goal of making our future technology just as much human as it is artificial.

Marina Abramović’s art pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and personal change. In her groundbreaking 2010 work, “The Artist Is Present,” she simply sat in a chair facing her audience, for eight hours a day … with powerfully moving results. Her boldest work may still be yet to come — it’s taking the form of a sprawling art institute devoted to experimentation and simple acts done with mindful attention. “Nothing happens if you always do things the same way,” she says. “My method is to do things I’m afraid of, the things I don’t know, to go to territory that nobody’s ever been.”