As the Kronos Quartet plays, a screen shows machines trying to make sense of the performance Bruce Guthrie
, Barbican Hall, London
ON THE evening of 11 July in London’s Barbican Hall, the celebrated Kronos Quartet will play for the benefit of a dozen machine eyes. There will be a human audience, too, following whatever it is the machines see as their output is fed to a big screen.
This is the European premiere of US artist Trevor Paglen’s Sight Machine. Last year, during its debut at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington…
