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Front Row: Immersive David Hockney art and Korean film Broker reviewed; artist Mike Nelson; AI-generated writing

23/02/2023

Immersive David Hockney art and Korean film Broker reviewed; artist Mike Nelson; AI-generated writing

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Immersive David Hockney art and Korean film Broker reviewed; artist Mike Nelson; AI-generated writing

Immersive Hockney art, Korean film Broker, installation artist Mike Nelson, AI writing.

Reviews of the new immersive Hockney art exhibition and Korean film Broker. Installation artist Mike Nelson's new retrospective. Plus the magazine swamped by AI-generated stories.

Reviews of the new immersive show David Hockney:  Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) at Lightroom in London and Korean film Broker, with Larushka Ivan Zadeh and Ekow Eshun.

Installation artist Mike Nelson on the art in his new retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London and the challenge of reconstructing such epic work.

Plus AI writing. Neil Clarke, Editor of The American science fiction and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld, on suspending new submissions after being swamped by AI-generated stories, and why AI could be a serious challenge the way we think about literature.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Sarah Johnson

Photo: David Hockney with his work at Lightroom. By Justin Sutcliffe

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