Do AIs Dream of a New Sentence Every Minute, from November 12 to 16, 2025?
In 1968, American science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick published Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Through androids more intelligent than humans but lacking emotion, and the bounty hunter Rick Deckard who pursues them, the novel asks what defines humanity.
Min Guhong Manufacturing’s Do AIs Dream of a New Sentence Every Minute, from November 12 to 16, 2025? is an homage that varies this question in another way. During Design Korea 2025, artificial intelligence generates a new sentence every minute through a web application. The sentences are projected across an entire wall of the exhibition space, filling visitors’ fields of vision. Each records time by the minute, revealing a structure in which language itself becomes a clock.
Viewers experience time solely through text, without hour, minute, or second hands. Each new sentence appears at regular, clocklike intervals while developing in an unfamiliar direction according to the AI’s algorithm. Visitors may stay for a few minutes to experience sentences accumulating or capture a sentence appearing at a particular moment. The exhibition space thus becomes a vast text archive and a landscape of time.
The work is implemented as a web application. A server requests a sentence from the AI every minute, and a browser displays it in real time. In the exhibition, the application is shown through a large projector so that every visitor sees the sentence of the same moment. Every generated sentence is recorded on the server and remains available online after the exhibition ends. The work’s simple, continuous structure turns the old question “Can artificial intelligence dream?” into a new one: “Can artificial intelligence dream of time?” The relationships between language, machines, time, and humanity reopen before the audience, who encounter the possibility of a sensibility shared by humans and machines.
The work also connects directly to the theme of Design Korea 2025, “New Orders Drawn by Design.” An AI recording time through language every minute offers a direct example of a machine drawing a new order. Language becomes a clock, and sentences stand in for order. Here, design expands beyond form and composition into the process of giving a new order to the boundaries of time and humanity.
Photos: Kim Jaeyeon
