7 Configurations

Bodily relics in the form of skins garments. Each garment bears unique scars resulting from the manipulations of an artificially intelligent robot named Amygdala.

What does it mean to create an autonomous prostheses, independent from human control? And what happens when organs live outside of a body? Could this help us understand that the power of the human body lies in its ability to be different and to take on unexpected forms and identities?

Far from being passive commodities, ‘intelligent’ software, body sensors and robotic devices drastically affect human bodies and lives. Which kinds of relationships do AI and robotics produce? How do those technologies influence the way we understand and discriminate human bodies? Who is ‘normal’ and why?

An artificially intelligent (AI) prosthesis. Its only aim is to learn a purification ritual of “skin-cutting” found in animistic societies, so it trains on its own body, endlessly.

Human bodies and identities are continuously categorized, online and offline, by artificially intelligent algorithms and machines. But what if, by contrast, artificial intelligence could be used to contaminate human bodily experience? How does a body defiled by algorithms look and move like?