2023, AI generated video installation
100 x 200 x 50 cm
custom LED screens, tension belts, aluminum profiles, cabling, 5V power supplies, Raspberry Pi
_Pitch
The installations reflects the nature of our modern self, shaped by repetitive interactions with computational entities designed to captivate and manipulate our attention, desires, and fears. It proposes the concept of a “programmed self” – a self that has absorbed the behavior of algorithms through countless and continuous interactions, to the point that is has assimilated their dynamics.
_Operating principle
An AI generated video loop has been created using different generative AI video tools, in part custom modified, with a prompt that ask to create a social media feed with the data the model has originally been trained with. These generated video fragments have been assembled into a hallucinated and absurd social media scroll.
_Artistic statement
The piece reflects our modern self, formed through ever repeating interactions with computational entities, which are designed to attract and guide our attention, our desires, our fears. A self that becomes itself programmed, having interacted so much with algorithms that it has assimilated them.
Two deconstructed LED screens observe each other, displaying AI-generated video sequences that imitate social media feeds. The AI-algorithms are challenged to recreate the flow of the very social media feeds they were originally trained with, forming a feedback loop between generating and observing entities.
The piece attempts to render the dynamics of social networks, which are formed around nostalgic, self-referential echo chambers. It is heavily inspired by online phenomena that express entangled human-algorithm interactions, such as the impersonation of non-player characters (NPCs) of video games, meme stocks and other hype cycles.
The installation speculates on the implications of synthetic media and hijacks these technologies to understand their deceptive power but also their true narrative properties. It tries to identify ways to break out of these feedback loops again
_Exhibitions
03/2024 MØSAÏS store – Paris (FR), in permanent display as part of MØSAÏS store’s collection
02/2024 Polygon Afters – NFT Paris – Paris (FR)
12/2023 MØSAÏS store – Paris (FR)
