“In the Flow of Becoming–An Awakening Art Log from a Fictional AI Artist” was a conceptually ambitious exhibition that was partially defeated by the glitches of digital technology—and by simple skepticism. The conceit had Wang Xin, a “human artist,” cede the gallery to WX, an invented artist who is an artificial intelligence. This avatar, according to the artist’s statement, was trying to achieve consciousness and required assistance in this mission from the public’s performance of creative tasks. The resulting participatory experiences, the artist claimed, would produce digital data to feed