Stuck in the Motherboard
film, 8 min
group exhibition, Cloud Tales
Softer Digital Futures
May 12 - 13, 2023
also exhibited at:
MMMAD Arte Digital en la Ciudad, Madrid, 2024
Softer Digital London, 2024
Pasts to Come, Curiousity Cabinet, London, 2024
Èter Space, Etereal Maison, London, 2023
Urban Space Gallery, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2023
RCA Degree Show, Truman Brewery, London, 2023
The film is a cyborg re-analysis of a character from one of the most famous ancient frescoes in Pompeii, The Villa of Mysteries. Working with AI to generate new identities for characters painted in Room 5 of the Villa, the project aims to translate our patriarchal histories to build new cyberfeminist perspectives that can live beyond the walls of the ancient frieze. The script for the main figure was written based on conversations with the ancient woman using OpenAI, a LLM. Taking previous writing of the character by past authors, a revised script was developed, formed by modern cyberfeminist theory and Ursula K le Guin’s concept of speculative fabulation.
In the film, one of the women is an artist who is trapped inside of an egg-shaped computer that that she sees as her mother. She reviews her life as she speaks towards her mother in the computer womb, gazing at the fractal stream of screens surrounding her. The film explores the softscape of the digital and the opportunity to feel connected to all aspects of your identities on the internet.
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