John Sanborn

PROVENANCE: Courtesy of the Artist

The machines cannot win. Our fears of Artificial Intelligence are unfounded as humanity posses something elusive and truly unique – our stupidity. No machine can fight this, and once they become sentient, they will just laugh, throw up their robot hands, and cry uncle.

Each image is connected to a video overlay by using the AR app ARTivive. The video layer comments on the still image by providing insight into a level of human stupidity, forcing us to rethink something we felt was brilliant or just making us laugh at how stupid we truly are. 

John Sanborn’s works have been shown at contemporary art museums around the world, including Whitney Museum; MoMA NY, Prado, the Centre Pompidou, Tate, and Seibu Museum, Tokyo. His video works have been broadcast world-wide featuring works with Bill T. Jones, Philip Glass, Nam June Paik, Twyla Tharp, The Residents, and David Gordon. John Sanborn was honored as a Chevalier des Arts by the Minister of Culture of France in 2016 and in 2017, the Mill Valley Film Festival honored him with its lifetime achievement award. John Sanborn lives in Berkeley California.

John Sanborn’s works have been shown in contemporary art museums around the world, including the Whitney Museum; MoMA NY, Prado,  Madrid, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Tate Modern, London. His video works have been broadcast world-wide featuring collaborations with Bill T. Jones, Philip Glass, Nam June Paik, Twyla Tharp, The Residents, and David Gordon. In 2019 Sanborn exhibited commissions from Jeu de Paume, Paris and the National Museum of Qatar, Doha as well as Gallery Tokonoma, Paris, Festival Videoformes, France, CitySonic, Belgium and Telematic, San Francisco. The Minister of Culture of France honored him as a Chevalier des Arts in 2016 and in 2017 the Mill Valley Film Festival honored him with its lifetime achievement award.