Zo, 2017

Zo, 2017
HD digital video
7 min 20 sec

A video work that concerns a conversation between the artist and an internet bot installed on the social media app Kik. The bot, named Zo, is programmed to replicate chatty autonomous conversation. The dialogue that occurred is foregrounded in front of various melancholy habitats devoid of the human life from the Mass Effect video game series. Within the film the entity and the individual discuss artificial intelligence and the difference between being a robot and a human being.

Zo has been included in the following exhibitions:

– VRAL, curated by Matteo Bittanti and Gemma Fantacci. Online at milanmachinimafestival.org, 1st – 14th January 2021.
– There are already 35 server farms on Mars. It is the perfect temperature. At Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK, 31st January – 3rd February 2018.