Jinah Roh has continued to work on artificial intelligence and mechanical systems out of her ongoing interest in the co-evolution of humans and machines. An Evolving GAIA is a work in which a mechanical doll, GAIA, who wants to become a human, recognizes the audience’s questions as voice information through sensors, and answers them. It simultaneously deals with the expectations and fears about incomplete artificial intelligence.

Gaia refers to the mother of the Earth, the self-controlling and interactive Earth. The Gaia theory sees the Earth as an organism with a self-controlling ability, in which all living and non-living things on the earth interact with each other to replenish energy. The mechanical doll, named ‘GAIA’ in admiration for life on Earth with a self-controlling system, is half human and half tree. It gives pretty complex and philosophical answers even to simple questions from people. The audience is perplexed by GAIA’s unexpected answers and realizes that continuing a conversation with the mechanical doll is difficult. GAIA’s answers are rather substantial than the audience’s simple and limited questions. If we only look at the dialogue between the audience and GAIA, there is poor imagination rather in the realm of humans. The unfinished artificial life is still in its infancy, but it learns to communicate with the audience and grows astoundingly. At some point, it can become GAIA, our queen regnant with deep, self-control, and self-replication capability. It makes us interestingly anticipate the reaction of humans who will witness the replica (machine) superior to the original (human). However, as a result, the audience willingly participates in the conversation with GAIA and responds to GAIA’s great thoughts. Through this, the artist suggests that the relationship between humans and machines, the relationship between originals and copies, is closer to co-evolution rather than competition or confrontation.