This work transforms a chair into a relic for future artificial intelligence, stripped of its typical features to symbolize AI’s bodiless existence. Crafted from lime plaster, a material that crystallizes over time into stone, the piece echoes the tradition of inscribing moral codes into enduring materials, from hieroglyphs to the Ten Commandments. However, this artifact grounds AI with ethical principles, bridging conception and reality.

The chair’s surface patterns feature binary-coded guidelines for AI governance, expressed in my signature two-tone style. By translating 10 key moral principles into binary, the piece creates a visual language for a new era, inviting reflection on ethics in the digital age. Lime plaster, with its transformative properties, embodies permanence, making it ideal for this dual-purpose artifact as physical object and ideological anchor.

The <command chair> gestures to AI’s origins, when humans first sat before machines imagining new possibilities, yet also highlights the need for an ethical compass in AI's evolution. This work offers a framework, urging creators of any kind to embed transparency, justice, and fairness into their work, ensuring ethics and innovation to coexist.

First shown at 'The Reality of the Virtual' show curated by Brecht Wright Gander, CURATED section at Collectible fair Brussels, Scenography by Duyi Han.