Language Is Leaving Me - An AI Cinematic Opera Of The Skin

Ellen Pearlman

Artwork Description:

LILM investigates newly emerging artificial intelligence cinema driven by Large Language Models combined with performative human biometric measurements (skin, muscles) in front of an audience revealing devastating aspects of the algorithmic processes underlying the use of AI in human perception, cognition, memory, and identity. Focusing on epigenetic or inherited traumatic memories of cultures of diaspora that change an individual's inherited rDNA structure passed from generation to generation, AI purports to understand, codify, and tag vastly complex and unique human traits. I compared and contrasted an original narrated English language video of an epigenetic memory into a representation of an AI induced cognitive aphasia. This cinematic performed biometric opera incorporating an volunteer's facial muscles uses different linguistic prompt scripts in Yiddish, Chinese, Tamil, and Xhosa reinterpreting intergenerational memories, obliterating their inherent semiotic and semantic references. This entire piece was custom coded, bypassing the filtering process of commercial image processing platforms.