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Embodying the Algorithm is a series of performances composed by an artificial intelligence and performed by a group of human artists during COVID-19 quarantine conditions. In these performances, the artists who come from a variety of performance art practices, locations, and identities develop performances written by GPT-3: the largest language model in existence. OpenAI’s GPT-3 is capable of composing texts which are difficult to distinguish from human writing. The language model was trained on an enormous dataset of articles, books, blog entries, and texts, many of which were sourced from the internet. As a result, however, GPT-3’s text sometimes reflects the statements and ideas of the internet and its human authors including biases, prejudices, and sometimes hateful or toxic output. This has resulted in some controversy around GPT-3 adding to existing ethical concerns about artificial intelligence’s increasing presence in our lives.
“Language is a moral medium.” -Gorjeoux Moon
This series of performances touches upon these issues of autonomy and individuality as well as the relationship between technology and the body, authorship and identity, and AI “creativity” vs. pattern matching or reproduction ultimately asking: what qualifies a work of performance art in consideration of human and non-human actors? What works of performance art might an artificial intelligence (help) generate? What can these performances tell us about ourselves and the human words and texts we immortalize online?
Embodying the Algorithm is a series of performances composed by an artificial intelligence and performed by a group of human artists during COVID-19 quarantine conditions.
you are not allowed to stop (2021) - 1 minute edit of 9 min. 52 sec. performance // From AIPerformance.space - Embodying the Algorithm // Chelsea Coon, program/sleep/stop/cry/shutdown (2021), Performance for video. Digital. Black and white. Sound. 9 minutes, 52 seconds. Courtesy of the artist.Courtesy of the artist. Filmed in the artist’s home studio during Covid-19 quarantine.
From AIPerformance.space - Embodying the Algorithm // 1 min. 46 sec. excerpt of 13 min. 55 sec. performance. Mirabelle Jones, Beans - Two Tins (2020), Performance for video. Digital. Color. Sound. Courtesy of the artist. Filmed in the artist’s home studio during Covid-19 quarantine.
From AIPerformance.space - Embodying the Algorithm // 40 sec. excerpt of 30 min. performance. Dooley Murphy, Thirteen Works for Video (2021). Digital. Color. Sound. Courtesy of the artist. Filmed in the artist’s home studio during Covid-19 quarantine.
From AIPerformance.space - Embodying the Algorithm // 2 min. excerpt of 30 minute performance. Marissa Lynn, [Box] (2021), Performance for video. Digital. Color. Sound. Courtesy of the artist. Filmed in the artist’s home studio during Covid-19 quarantine.
From AIPerformance.space - Embodying the Algorithm // 20 second excerpt of 12 min. 16 sec. performance. Emmett Palaima, Tones of a Clown (2021), Performance for video. Digital. Color. Sound. Courtesy of the artist. Filmed in the artist’s home studio during Covid-19 lockdown.
From AIPerformance.space - Embodying the Algorithm // 3 min. excerpt of 18 minute performance. Rine Rodin, The Wise and The Mad (2021). Performance for video. Digital. Color. Sound. Courtesy of the artist. Filmed in the artist’s home studio during Covid-19 quarantine.
Performances written by an AI performed by human beings.