From hand-drawn QR codes that may or may not actually work to an A.I.-assisted coffee-ground reading—a new show at MASS MoCA dives into our ever-present and growing relationship with technology and artificial intelligence. “Technologies of Relation” also offers many surprising connections, insights, and fresh approaches to engagement with science and our related devices.
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I also spent time with Mashinka Hakopian and Danny Snelson, who, along with Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Demirjian, are behind one of the most thought-provoking and prominent projects in the show, Բաժակ Նայող (One Who Looks at the Cup: Querent) (2024–26). It merges “artificial intelligence with ancestral forms of knowing,” according to the catalogue description, through the art of tasseography or “coffee reading.” Hakopian, who grew up watching her aunt perform these readings at their kitchen table, points out it’s a far earlier form of “predictive technology.”
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