From a boy setting off small explosions in his front room to the creator of world-famous pyrotechnic occasions, multidisciplinary artist Cai Guo-Qiang has all the time been drawn to gunpowder. He provides a surprising tour of his work — together with his fireworks spectacle on the 2008 Beijing Olympics, his “sky ladder” of fireplace reaching to the clouds and new work created with AI — and exhibits how his artwork probes the road between destruction and development, management and freedom, violence and wonder. (This discuss was delivered in Mandarin and translated dwell into English. The interpretation was put by way of a customized AI mannequin of Cai Guo-Qiang’s voice, powered by expertise from Metaphysic. You will hear how Cai would sound if he have been talking English.)
This episode initially aired July 30, 2024.
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