Expositio, Iudicium, Lacrimae, or, Does an AI God Have an Ass?

Join us for the performance lecture Expositio, Iudicium, Lacrimae, or, Does an AI God Have an Ass? by exhibiting artist Zach Blas exploring the idea of religious-un/conscious thriving in today’s tech industry. Charting his encounters with various artificial intelligence gods, Blas tells of a computational world of divine judgment and devout submission, where artificial intelligence exists alongside mystical glyphs, occult sigils, captured bodies, and corporate transcendence. Through a consideration of religious sermons, offerings of worship, and spiritual iconography, an AI religiosity is traced, in which flesh becomes biometric and emotional crying transmutes into a symbolic language of holy quantification.

The performance lecture will be followed by a conversation with the artist and Mark Andrejevic.