ARTIFICIAL A LOVE STORY HC (C: 0-1-2) (10/18/2023) CATAPULT en offre

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ARTIFICIAL A LOVE STORY HC (C: 0-1-2) (10/18/2023) CATAPULT

ARTIFICIAL A LOVE STORY HC (C: 0-1-2)
(W) Lordon, Claire (A) Lordon, Claire
CATAPULT
StockID: 91716 SKU: AUG231798

How do we relate to-and hold-our family’s past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art- poetry- music? Or is it through the resonances we look for in ourselves? In Artificial- we meet the Kurzweils- a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil- who has long been saving the documents of his deceased father- Fredric- an accomplished conductor and pianist from Vienna who fled the Nazis in 1938. Once- Fred’s life was saved by his art: an American benefactor- impressed by Fred’s musical genius- sponsored his emigration to the United States. He escaped just one month before Kristallnacht. Now- Fred has returned. Through AI and salvaged writing- Ray is building a chatbot that writes in Fred’s voice- and he enlists his daughter- cartoonist Amy Kurzweil- to help him ensure the immortality of their family’s fraught inheritance. With Kurzweil’s signature humanity and humor- in boundary-pushing- gorgeous handmade drawings- Artificial guides us through nuanced questions about art- memory- and technology- demonstrating that love- a process of focused attention- is what grounds a meaningful life.

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