Brandon Tay, EMULATOR, 2024, HD video, looped 12 minutes, Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs. Image courtesy of the artist.
ON VIEW in Pesaro, Italy: Brandon Tay presents EMULATOR (2024), a hybrid speculative film/essay that interrogates the influence of psychedelics and the California Ideology on the trajectory of computing, both in our consensual reality and an alternate timeline. In the latter, Wilheim Reich’s Orgone theory catalyzes the emergence of wetware and a collapsed, post-AI world, where the miraculous and absurd outputs of fleshy AIs are trafficked by the eponymous Emulators, who mimic these flawed artifacts as a form of cognitive camouflage.
The work is presented as part of the 'Semester of Bits and Atoms' at the Transmedia Research Institute from Friday 28 June 2024 in Pesaro, Italy.
The work is presented as part of the 'Semester of Bits and Atoms' at the Transmedia Research Institute from Friday 28 June 2024 in Pesaro, Italy.
