HD video with subtitles, 7:38, 2023
Created in collaboration with Victoria Cheredeeva using the generative AI Midjourney, the video narrative “Embodied” navigates virtual realms of the near future to consider possible evolutions of the internet. Central to these questions are queries about the body, and how we can inhabit and interact in a virtual space. Though current forms of AI hallucinate when they are unable to understand the mechanisms of our world, where do we, limited by our abilities as bodied individuals in a noncorporeal space, fail to understand the mechanisms of the digital sphere? Do the differences between bodied and non bodied consciousnesses represent a barrier, or does innate “humanity” transcend them?