MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE 3.0

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The piece has a diegetic character. It is related to an untold fiction and a possible future where intelligent machines control every aspect of our lives and privacy. With small poetic gestures, they challenge our humanity. The piece questions the anthropocentric vision of technological developments and machine learning systems. As humanity, we transfer our own logic to these systems, assuming that, in the case of a general artificial intelligence, it would act with the same oppressive logic with which we relate to other forms of life. At the core of dystopian visions of technology is the fear of being treated the same way we treat ourselves. It consists of a screen that functions as a cloudy digital mirror on which the poem All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Richard Brautigan, 1967) appears as if someone were writing it with their finger. The image resembles the effect produced in the bathroom mirror by the steam from the shower. The writing was generated through a machine learning system and simulates human handwriting done with the finger and the different lines of the poem appear.

year: 2023

media: REACTIVE DIGITAL MIRROR

components: CUSTOM SOFTWARE, SCREEN 32", CAMERA 4K, COMPUTER

dimensions: ≈ 73 × 42 × 3 cm, 6:45 min (in loop)

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