What is it to expose the identities of strangers you happen to be in a room with? How little data can be fed (munch munch) to Chat GTP for it to write your whole (hi)story? What do we do with the untruths in that story? Do we gloss over them, or pick up on them? What if we focus on the myths ChatGTP creates? Wonderful titles of artworks never made. Or fictitious jobs/exhibitions we never had. Can we share your data? How much data will you offer us? Do you trust us with your data? If you don’t trust us, why do you trust Chat GTP? What is it to do this data exposure in public? Is a human witness more embarrassing than a machine? What will you share with machines that you won’t share with humans? What will you share with humans that you would never share with a machine? Are there any topics you would never touch on with a machine? In July 2024 Clareese Hill and Elly Clarke presented a lecture performance as part of EASST-4s in Amsterdam. During a 30-minute session, they invited the sharing raw data (aka names) of the people present via a Rise Pad doc, which Clarke and Hill then fed into Chat GTP, exposing the results in real-time. Never asking more than ‘who is XXXXX?’ whole biographies poured out onto the screen-shared page to the audience. With the screen-recording of this performance projected behind us, we will collectively reflect on this experience, inviting the audience to feed in as we go, responding to questions we are raising, via a RisePad document.
Biography
Elly Clarke (London/Felixstowe, UK) and Clareese Hill (Boston/New York, US) are artist-researchers and collaborators thinking about how to disrupt the problematic notion of authorship. They write and perform collaborative texts that merge identities to establish new narratives of entangled identities from disparate ontological experiences.