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

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

18 February 2023

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia | Website

ACCA

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.