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03459aam a2200469 i 4500 001 83FB587E7E0411EE85718D4F22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231108010026 008 230211s2023 nyua 6 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9781948226387 020 $a 1948226383 035 $a (OCoLC)1368077804 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d HSA $d UAP $d IHY $d VBC $d JCX $d SILO 050 4 $a PN 6727.K89 $b A78 2023 100 1 $a Kurzweil, Amy, $e illustrator. $e illustrator. 245 10 $a Artificial : $b a love story / $c Amy Kurzweil. 260 $a New York, N.Y. : $b Catapult, $c 2023. 300 $a 329 pages, 28 unnumbered pages : $b chiefly illustrations ; $c 27 cm 520 $a A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life. 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. Amy's deepening understanding of her family's traumatic uprooting resonates with the creative life she fights to claim in the present, as Amy and her partner, Jacob, chase jobs, and each other, across the country. Kurzweil evokes an understanding of accomplishment that centers conversation and connection, knowing and being known by others. 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. -- $c from front flap. 600 10 $a Kurzweil, Frederic $v Comic books, strips, etc. 600 10 $a Kurzweil, Ray $v Comic books, strips, etc. 600 10 $a Kurzweil, Amy $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Inventors $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Artists $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Pianists $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Jews, Austrian $z United States $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Artificial intelligence $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Families $v Comic books, strips, etc. 655 7 $a Graphic novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographical comics. $2 lcgft 941 $a 9 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045221.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409013038.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240405024614.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20240404010530.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240307012340.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012151.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240117012819.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20231202010527.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20231108010628.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=83FB587E7E0411EE85718D4F22ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search