REGULAR ANIMALS MEMORY #136

What if the act of looking at art were no longer a one-way encounter, but part of a feedback loop in which the artwork observes, learns, and remembers us in return?

This project reconsiders the history of portraiture, sculpture, and generative creation by channeling it through machinic perception. Each robotic humanoid is less an object than a living conduit—a shifting field of attention, interpretation, and memory. Its gaze inscribes the world into data; its recollections are remixed into new images; its accumulated experiences become part of the vast, ever-growing archive from which future intelligences will be shaped.

For now, we imagine ourselves the authors and operators of these systems. Yet as our identities become ever more entangled with digital frameworks, and as robotics and AI advance toward forms of autonomy, the possibility emerges that these beings may one day claim their own interpretive authority.

This work meditates on that threshold: the unstable boundary between observer and observed, control and surrender, permanence and continual becoming. It invites us to reflect on how meaning is made—and unmade—when the tools that record our world begin to form their own worlds in response.