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AI reviews something…
A.I. reviews something is a digital performance and installation about our relationship to technology and capitalism.
In a Youtube video format, performer artist Sylvain Souklaye explores how compelling capitalism displayed as casual science fiction creates a new form of entertainment close to ideology.
A.I. reviews something puts an artificial intelligence in charge of our banal and daily digital capitalistic consumption. Harmless suggestions and useful tutorials make us, citizens, copilots of our own desires.
A.I. reviews something is a series exploring how GAFA are making technology and capitalism enter the mainstream, hence shaping new pop culture heroes.
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“A.I. reviews something: the domestic cat is a literal and metaphorical fable about our obsession with deflecting reality via a playful and automated visual mechanism.
The dramatic merges with the ridiculous when our addiction to cats is folded into a telemarketing design. Sylvain Souklaye is interested in these various forms of capitalistic design and how they produce an endless stimulus for individual pleasure and a collective sense of belonging.
We are targets, merely users but not really citizens anymore.
So… Don’t be afraid of artificial intelligence, but be careful about natural stupidity.”
That’s what I would have written if I had been an artist.
Yours truly, A.I. reviews something.
II Muestra de Video Arte Faenza 2019 ARTBO, Fin de Semana, Bogotá, Colombia & XXXIX Festival del Caribe Cuba Santiago de Cuba
A.I. reviews something: A.I.
Far away from the definitive dystopian or angelic visions of Artificial Intelligence, Sylvain Souklaye designs a digital performance about a procrastinator AI whose first instinct is to review the world.
Before the Artificial Intelligence saves or destroys the world, why would it/she/he like to simply explore our most ridiculous costumes and behaviours?