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