Unoriginal_Sin

Xanthe Dobbie

Content warning: Contains computer generated nudity, sexual themes and coarse language.

What digital future are we willing to submit to?

Originality is collapsing in the age of AI and it’s impossible to tell what’s real. Inspired by the idea of ‘mean images’, coined by Hito Steyerl, today’s digital landscape is a streaming torrent of slop content. Feel the tension between god-like technological power and human complacency as you experience a tapestry of stolen sound and image that dredges the mediocrity of the internet. Machine learning, endless scrolling and environmental collapse form a reflection of how we feed – and are fed by – the algorithm. In this hallucination, nothing is sacred and everything is derivative. In the noise of repetition, a strange kind of truth emerges.

How does it feel to be consumed by a machine we built?

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Xanthe Dobbie (AUS) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Naarm, Melbourne. Working across on and offline modes of making, they draw on queer and cyberfeminist ideologies to develop shrines to a post-truth era. They have exhibited extensively locally and internationally with recent works including live-streamed theatre, interactive media, AR, VR, collage, performance and installation.