Lawrence Lek: NOX

NOX is an expansive exhibition that imagines the psychological consequences of a future populated by smart systems and intelligent machines. Across three floors, it invites audiences into a facility where Farsight Corporation, a fictional artificial intelligence (AI) conglomerate, trains and treats their sentient self-driving cars. Each class of vehicle serves a different role, such as delivery, patrol or pleasure, and has a corresponding personality type. When their cars begin to demonstrate undesirable behaviour, Farsight summons them to the centre — titled NOX, short for ‘Nonhuman Excellence’ — to undergo a five-day rehabilitation programme.