Are We Entering a Post-Individual Era of Art?

Christopher Kulendran Thomas· Guest0:00

[gentle music] For our civilization, I would like to see us get a bit more, more comfortable with other civilizations living by their own values, even if we're not into those values. I think we haven't had to think like that.

Ben Davis· Host0:16

[upbeat music] I'm Ben Davis, and this is The Art Tangle, a podcast from Artnet News. The New Museum in New York opens its new building this week, and it's doing so with a big show called New Humans: Memories of the Future, about how artists have rethought what it means to be human through technology. It's a topic on a lot of people's minds right now. And among the many artists whose visions feature in this important show is Christopher Kalendran Thomas. Kalendran Thomas has a lot going on. Aside from the New Museum, he's got another video installation up at the Museum of Modern Art right now. Well, last fall, his work Peace Corps showed at Gagosian Gallery in New York. He also runs a buzzy project space, Earth, on the Lower East Side and in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Kalendran Thomas' works are complicated. They often feature paintings inspired by AI-generated images. His video installations at MoMA and at the New Museum involve deep fake interviews with celebrities like Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, or even other artists,