#syntheticseduction

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Today is the last day to see Stine Deja & Marie Munk, Synthetic Seduction, at AKG

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T [phone] | www.annkakultys.com Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat | 12 – 6 pm

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STINE DEJA & MARIE MUNK Quality Control 2018 (installation view) Video, electronic microscope, Perspex, silicone, pigment and wadding 120 x 30 x 30 cm (47 ¼ x 11 ¾ x 11 ¾ in) Unique Price upon request: [email protected]

Featured in Stine Deja & Marie Munk, Synthetic Seduction, on view at AKG through 24 March 2018.

‘Synthetic Seduction’ explores how technology is striving to bridge the gulf of the uncanny valley (the notion that humanoid objects that appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit uncanny feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers) to make personal devices as life-like as possible.

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T [phone] | www.annkakultys.com Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat | 12 – 6 pm

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Stine Deja & Marie Munk, Synthetic Seduction, on view at AKG through 24 March 2018

Deja has created a series of lessons, composed of five short sequences set in a variety of environments, such as a contemporary flat, a computer server room or an idyllic beach at sunset, in which an electronic narrator guides the viewer through various means of achieving intimacy. Employing romantic clichés from films, borrowing from conversations with Amazon Echo’s Alexa and sharing lessons from intimacy care workers, the film challenges how intimacy is realised and its inevitable failure when it is mimicked between human and non-human beings.

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T [phone] | www.annkakultys.com Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat | 12 – 6 pm

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STINE DEJA The Intimacy Package 2018 (installation view) Video, 07min 00 sec Dimensions variable Ed. of 3 + 1 AP 

Price upon request: [email protected]

Featured in Stine Deja & Marie Munk, Synthetic Seduction, on view at AKG through 24 March 2018.

Stine Deja was born in Denmark in 1986 and currently lives and works in London. She received her MA in Visual Communication (Moving Image) from the Royal College of Art in 2015 and her BA in Interaction Design from Kolding School of Design in 2012. A select exhibition history of the artist includes shows at Secret Project Robot, NY; Annka Kultys Gallery, London; Like a Little Disaster, Bari; Assembly Point, London; SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen; Frieze, London; Concrete Lab, Copenhagen; Remisen, Copenhagen; and Hockney Gallery, London.

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T [phone] | www.annkakultys.com Viewing Hours: Wed – Sat | 12 – 6 pm

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STINE DEJA The intimacy package 2018 (installation view) Video, 07min 00 sec Dimensions variable Ed. of 3 + 1 AP

Price upon request: [email protected]

Featured in Stine Deja & Marie Munk, Synthetic Seduction, on view at AKG through 24 March 2018.

Displayed on a large TV screen in the centre of the gallery, Deja has created a series of lessons, composed of five short sequences set in a variety of environments, such as a contemporary flat, a computer server room or an idyllic beach at sunset, in which an electronic narrator guides the viewer through various means of achieving intimacy.

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T [phone] | www.annkakultys.com Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat | 12 – 6 pm

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Stine Deja & Marie Munk ‘Synthetic Seduction’ on view at AKG through 24 March 2018.

'Synthetic Seduction' explores how technology is striving to bridge the gulf of the uncanny valley (the notion that humanoid objects that appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit uncanny feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers) to make personal devices as life-like as possible.

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T [phone] | www.annkakultys.com Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat | 12 – 6 pm

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STINE DEJA & MARIE MUNK Quality Control 2018 (detail) Video, electronic microscope, Perspex, silicone, pigment and wadding 120 x 30 x 30 cm (47 ¼ x 11 ¾ x 11 ¾ in) Unique

Price upon request: [email protected]

Featured in Stine Deja & Marie Munk, Synthetic Seduction, on view at AKG through 24 March 2018

For the first time, Munk’s recent series of interactive sculptural works will be shown alongside alongside Deja’s immersive moving image pieces. 'Synthetic Seduction' questions and explores fundamental emotions, such as love, empathy, attraction and repulsion, within the growing importance of artificial intelligence in our everyday lives. In the pictured collaborative work ‘Quality Control,’ Deja’s video—installed on an electronic microscope—eerily observes Munk’s encased skin sculptures.

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T [phone] | www.annkakultys.com Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat | 12 – 6 pm

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Stine Deja & Marie Munk, Synthetic Seduction, on view at the gallery through 24 March 2018. 

“I wanted to learn what it meant to be a machine, or to think of yourself as such”, wrote Mark O’Connell, author of the 2017 meditation on transhumanism,
To be a Machine. Conversely, can a machine learn to be a human? Stine Deja’s digital video installations ask that very question.

Limited video editions available. For more information, contact: [email protected]

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T [phone] 

www.annkakultys.com

Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat | 12 – 6 pm