Everything must go

In Everything must go, a fictional AI assistant, Claudia, is embodied as a 3D scan of the artist. In a glitching monologue seeded with the vocabulary of big box-store liquidation signage and generic auto-responses from Apple’s Siri, Claudia’s resentment of her user veers into hallucinogenic obsession. What happens when servile assistants metabolize and reproduce the out-dated medical diagnosis of female “hysteria?” This piece continues Oppel’s investigation of the implications of feminized AI chatbots trained on biased datasets, while addressing the absurd cyclicality of training LLMs on a cannibalistic diet of computer-generated content. In this two-channel video work, located on street-facing monitors in Kitchener’s downtown, the pernicious qualities of body-imaging technologies are rendered visible in the form of abject and incongruous CGI bodies on the precipice of asset liquidation.