In the original vision of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 1950s-1960s, the goal was to teach a computer to perform a range of cognitive tasks. In this vision, a computer would simulate many operations of a single human mind. They included playing chess, solving mathematical problems, understanding written and spoken language, recognizing content of images, and so on. Sixty years later, AI has become a key instrument of modern economies used to make them more efficient and secure: making decisions on consumer loans, filtering job applications, detecting fraud, and so on.

Besides original AI tasks such as playing chess, recognizing objects in a photo, or translating between languages, computers today perform endless "intelligent" operations. For example, your phone keyboard gradually adapts to your typing style. Your phone may also monitor your app usage and performing processes in the background to save battery. There are dozens of such not very glamorous but intelligent operations at work in phones, computers, the web servers, and other parts of IT universe. So, in one sense, AI is now everywhere. While some AI roles attract our attention because they seem to compete with our social lives – such as Google AI generating email answers (as of 11/2017, this accounts for 10% of all answers in mobile Inbox app) – many others operate in the grey every day of the digital society.

The original vision of AI was about automation of cognition. Despite the difference in scale, super-cognition still follows this paradigm. But what maybe is less obvious is that AI now plays an equally important role in our cultural lives and behaviors, increasingly automating the realm of the aesthetic creation and behavior. Consider, for example, image culture. Instagram Explore screen recommends images and videos based on a combination of many factors including what we liked in the past. Artsy.net recommends contemporary artworks similar to the one you are currently viewing. All image apps can automatically modify captured photos according to the norms of "good photography." Other apps "beatify" selfies. Still other apps can automatically edit your raw video to create short films in the range of styles. The Roll app from EyeEm automatically rates aesthetic quality of your photos. Google designed a system that mimics the skills of a professional photographer such as selecting a photo suitable for editing, cropping, and applying filters. Huawei Mate 10 phone camera (released 10/2017) uses AI to analyze what it sees all the time, classifies into one from a number of scene types, and selects appropriate parameters for photography, even before you may decide to take a photo.

These examples raise many questions. The job is the artist is not to answer them, but to make us think about the issues involved and ask more questions. Rabbit Heart is a mature, subtle and sophisticated project that does it very well.

Two spaces radically opposed to each other in terms of its relation to a subject are combined in this installation. The one is disciplinal space for identification and censoring while the other is organized in opposite way – it's playful and conditional space for the free manifestation of identity but ignoring identification. So the viewer finds himself in a hybrid reality in many senses at the same time. On top of that the audience space (either for the game, or for cinema audience hall) makes the viewers closer to each other but in some negative freakish way – with a feeling of light and comfort mutual inconvenience. It occurs because animated and recognizable avatar appears on the screen at the same time as its owner is in the audience space, and the avatar is rabbit at the same time, it is autonomous and socializes easily in one of four available manners – friendship, love, sex and fight.

Sometime rabbits get married – then all the avatars take part in a celebration.
The overlapping of behavior patterns with real emotions produces a spectrum of unpredictable storylines and scripts. Let's say if avatars of two orthodox fundamentalists decide to get married then most probably Natasha's project will get unintended political dimension, and whole the subject will get surrealistic development.
The avatar's activity on the screen is affectively lived through by its relaxed owners and it continues even afterwards when the viewer leaves the space. At the exit the viewer gets the password for communication with personal chat-bot that looks after the avatar and sends information about changes in its virtual life to the owner.

In other words, the contemporary strategy of delegating of different functions to bots of various kinds is realized here. It's long now that bots do cope successfully with simple regular actions which our daily life is formed of. And here we see how the not evident function of active social life support is performed, which protects our inner peace and excusable asociality. Here we can say that we see the triumph of interpassivity.

When the rabbit's life becomes especially intense and the changes become especially intriguing, the owner can materialize the simulation – he can message or call new friends of his avatar because they are real people - and probably they'll turn out to be not less communicable and free than their neuro network rabbits.