Jonathan Bruce Williams — Installation View, Let's All Abandon Reality Together, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, 2025
Jonathan Bruce Williams — Installation View, Let's All Abandon Reality Together, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, 2025

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Jonathan Bruce Williams
2025

A central work, Move 37, endlessly iterates John Conway's Game of Life (1970) behind a Go board depicting the 37th move played by Google's AlphaGo against Lee Sedol in 2016. Initially dismissed as an error, the move proved decisive, a turning point in the history of artificial intelligence. In Williams' hands, it becomes a conceptual fulcrum, an infinite loop where the match is no longer between man and machine but between collapsing worldviews. Logic versus intuition, pattern recognition versus unpredictability, control dissolving into surrender. Framed by schematic drawings of human and robotic figures, the flickering board becomes an unstable arena, a haunted matrix of digital aberration.

From Let's All Abandon Reality Together, Kai Matsumiya, New York, 2025.
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