Gallery Entry
DELEGATION / ABSENCE
By Iryna Grytsenko · MA
DELEGATION / ABSENCE is part of my ongoing artistic research Architecture of Memory — Human / AI, which explores the changing relationship between human memory, architectural space, knowledge and artificial intelligence. The work examines what happens when the acquisition of knowledge and creative decisions are increasingly delegated to artificial intelligence. I am interested not only in the capabilities of AI, but also in the fragility of information obtained through it — particularly when this information is accepted without a human foundation of knowledge, experience and critical understanding. The composition presents an architectural environment crossed by a network of connections. These lines represent the invisible exchanges between the human and the artificial intelligence system: questions, requests and prompts sent by the individual, and the information and possibilities that return from the system. The architecture becomes a visual metaphor for a growing technological environment in which knowledge, decisions and creative processes circulate through interconnected structures. However, these connections are deliberately made with unfixed pastel. They are not permanently fixed to the surface of the work. The work is conceived as a performance over time, presented under glass. As time passes, the pastel connections will gradually fade, break apart and disappear. The network that initially appears complex and powerful is therefore inherently unstable. This gradual disappearance is an essential part of the work. The fading network becomes a metaphor for information received through AI when it is not supported by an underlying foundation of human knowledge and understanding. Information can arrive almost instantly, appearing precise, complete and authoritative. But without the ability to question, interpret, verify and integrate it, that knowledge can be equally fragile. What comes quickly can disappear just as quickly. The physical process of erasure therefore becomes part of the meaning of the work rather than simply a formal effect. The viewer encounters not only an image, but a system that is changing and disappearing in real time. At the centre of the composition is an irregular physical opening in the paper. A fragment of the image has been removed, leaving an actual absence within the architectural environment. This absence is both material and conceptual. It suggests something that can no longer be recovered simply by adding more information. The work questions the relationship between delegation and dependence. When we delegate the search for knowledge, the generation of ideas or parts of the creative process to AI, what happens to the human capacity that previously performed these functions? Does delegation expand human possibilities, or can it gradually weaken the foundation on which those possibilities depend? The unstable network also relates to memory. Memory is not a fixed archive: it selects, transforms, loses and reconstructs. AI operates differently, but both raise questions about what remains, what disappears and what gives information meaning. In Delegation / Absence, AI is therefore not treated simply as a technological subject or a visual aesthetic. The work examines the relationship between human intention, technological assistance, knowledge and disappearance. The work ultimately asks: If we increasingly delegate the production and retrieval of knowledge to artificial intelligence, what remains when the connections disappear? And beyond this: Can information become knowledge without a human foundation?