works | Cabin Fever AI Love Story 2022

4K video converted to HD video, 2min excerpt of 11:06min total running time. 

Cabin Fever AI Love Story is a pandemic-fueled fever dream about an Artificial Intelligence who accesses  the artist's hard drive and uses their files to make a video... Unfortunately, the AI has been trained on the unhealthy, chaotic spaces of the internet, so things become a little unhinged! 

In the short clips from Cabin Fever below,  a 3D-modeled version of my own face, rigged for facial motion capture, brings to ‘life’ some poetic text written by an artificial intelligence (GPT-2) trained in the English language and health-related spam emails.  Like much of my work, it crosses back and forth between what is considered the digital world (AI, CGI, etc.) and what is considered the 'real' world -- me as an embodied artist, my voice, my daily interaction with capitalism and health. 

 Premiered at Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island New York, in LW Shorts September 23-25, 2022.

Filmed, edited and animated by Erica Molesworth

Written in collaboration with an early GPT-2 artificial intelligence model, fine-tuned on health-related spam emails by Erica Molesworth.

Further credits:

Additional text from the United States’ Senate Committee on Foreign Relations’

hearing, Attacks on Diplomats in Cuba (‘havana syndrome’), 2018

Made with the assistance of:

Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY

Wassaic Project, NY, and

Blundell’s Swamp Wildlife Cooperative, Australia