On the 20th of February, my tutor group had our first meeting with Jasminka and together we shared our idea about our vision of having AI and robot agencies. We discussed what venue to choose for our group activity which is visiting a place of work that is relevant to our group project. We thought of visiting an exhibition that is likewise connected to AI at the same time and examine the workspace first but then realized the exhibition was about to open in March. Our next thought afterwards were restaurants in which robots are already being used. The first restaurant we wanted to visit was ‘’Haidilao Hotpot’’ but then unfortunately had to find out over the phone that they no longer use robots. So, we booked our second option ‘’Din Tai Fung’’ for the next day right away to be able to see an environment that already engages with robotic installations.
After class ended, I reflected on our individual task and began to write down a few questions for my interview with a stakeholder. I decided to reach out to 4 creatives via Instagram and explain my project. I finally opted for 3 questions in total with the consideration to save the rest as follow-up questions if the conversation could take an interesting turn.
My ultimate message with questions looked like this:
Hello XY,
I hope all is well.
I am an MA researcher at Central Saint Martins and currently investigate the future of work.
I follow your work on social media for a while now and thought it could be interesting to get a different view on the topic from someone who also works with different materials and experiments a lot with them.
I would highly appreciate your support.
Any short response would be helpful.
My 3 questions would be:
1. Can you see yourself or artists collaborate with AI in the future work environment and if so why?
2. Do you think new inventions like robots will affect your future in a negative or positive way and if so why? (Will it make it easier or harder?)
3. How do you imagine the future of work in general and also within your profession?
I hope you‘ll be able to help me out.
Best,
Cheyenne von Thun