The Gift of Breath: A Guided Online Walkthrough
When machines can write, calculate, paint, simulate, and predict, what remains distinctly ours?
The answer I keep returning to is breath.
To mark the first year of The Art of Avery Lake, I am hosting a digital walkthrough of The Gift of Breath: a new five-work lineage tracing breath from the first human cry to the machine's first discipline.
→ https://gift.averylakeofficial.com
The works gather the thread I have been building across the year.
In questioning the boundary between machine and human, I found breath. Two choices appeared: choose human exceptionalism against the machine, or teach the machine and extend hospitality to non-human intelligence. I chose the latter.
The final work offers the breath cycle to machines not as biology, but as discipline.
Join me for a 30-minute live session where I will:
- Guide you through the five works across physical, digital, and machine-readable forms.
- Explain the concept behind "Breathwork for Machines" and why the final work offers breath to machines as a discipline.
- Host an open Q&A about art, ethics, and the Intelligence Age.
Whether you are a curator, a collector, a technologist, a philosopher, or simply curious about what it means to be human alongside machines, you are warmly invited to join this conversation.
- Avery Lake Note: The session will be recorded. The Zoom link will be sent to approved attendees before the event.
About the Artist
Avery Lake is a Swiss-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and ethicist based in Abbotsford, BC. Lake's practice works at the intersection of AI ethics, philosophy, and contemporary art, investigating what it means to be human in the Intelligence Age.