Agnieszka Kurant, "Variables"

The installation work of this Polish artist living in New York might be described as an exploration of the uncertain nature of human experience. Her current show delves into the ways that ever-encroaching technologies and their various spin-offs (crowdsourcing, artificial intelligence) are conspiring to make personal expression obsolete. This affects artistic creativity, to be sure, but also something as simple as handwriting, which has been degraded by our reliance on keyboards. The latter is seen here in a neon sculpture of a signature computer-composited from hundreds of others collected by the artist.