One million monkey (2025) by Wenqian Gao

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Wenqian Gao

One million monkey

2025

Nomination

DOWEDO - NAMEC Prize

Available

€3,000.00 + VAT

Generative AI and real-time thermal printing

140 × 45 × ∅ 0 × 35 cm (54.6 × 17.55 × 0 × 13.65 in), 7 kg (15.432 lb), Large-scale artwork

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One Million Monkeys

The title of the work derives from the Infinite Monkey Theorem: given an infinite amount of time, countless monkeys randomly striking the keys of typewriters could eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. This thought experiment about probability, repetition, and chance also echoes the way artificial intelligence generates language through training on vast amounts of textual data and continuous iteration.

One Million Monkeys is an automated vending machine for contemporary art proposals. Through a touchscreen interface, visitors select creative parameters such as artistic medium, subject matter, identity, geographical context, and ideology. Based on these selections, an AI system generates a proposal for a contemporary artwork and prints it as a physical receipt that the visitor can take away.

Interactive installation, AI generative system, touchscreen, thermal printer

Gao Wenqian

Born in ShanDong, China Education

2009-2013 Academy of fine art of China.

2015-2019 École national supérieur des beaux-arts de paris

His interdisciplinary practice encompasses interactive installation, gaming, experimental moving image, internet-based works, and sound. Engaging with the meta-narratives of media, he con- structs model-based scenarios as forms of simulation, using them as thought experiments to probe the contradictions and paradoxes of the contemporary world. nI recent years, his work has increasingly drawn inspiration from natural phenomena, developing simulations that explore

the entanglement of biological and technological systems.

Born in ShanDong, China Education

2009-2013 Academy of fine art of China.

2015-2019 École national supérieur des beaux-arts de paris

the entanglement of biological and technological systems.

Born in ShanDong, China Education

2009-2013 Academy of fine art of China.

2015-2019 École national supérieur des beaux-arts de paris

the entanglement of biological and technological systems.

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Effetto Sauna (Fuori dalle parentesi) | Pad 12 - ES8

Wenqian Gao

One million monkey

2025

Nomination

DOWEDO - NAMEC Prize

Available

€3,000.00 + VAT

Generative AI and real-time thermal printing

140 × 45 × ∅ 0 × 35 cm (54.6 × 17.55 × 0 × 13.65 in), 7 kg (15.432 lb), Large-scale artwork

1/5

One Million Monkeys

Interactive installation, AI generative system, touchscreen, thermal printer

Gao Wenqian

Born in ShanDong, China Education

2009-2013 Academy of fine art of China.

2015-2019 École national supérieur des beaux-arts de paris

the entanglement of biological and technological systems.

Born in ShanDong, China Education

2009-2013 Academy of fine art of China.

2015-2019 École national supérieur des beaux-arts de paris

the entanglement of biological and technological systems.

Born in ShanDong, China Education

2009-2013 Academy of fine art of China.

2015-2019 École national supérieur des beaux-arts de paris

the entanglement of biological and technological systems.

Wenqian Gao

One million monkey

One Million Monkeys

Gao Wenqian

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One million monkey

One Million Monkeys

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