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2020
Video / Installation (generative AI processes and 3D ambisonics sound)
12:25 minutes

Distorted knowledge is essential to the existence of current power structures; control over information lies in the hands of those with access to computing technology that is able to shape it. This same technology enables a massive manipulation of affects that deploys misrepresentation, distortion, and corruption as principal tools. In Autoimmune, a non-human entity speaks directly to the audience, problematizing distorted understandings of HIV, queerness, and disease. It gains agency over data, distorting images from archives, and animating archival figures to speak. Composed with machine learning processes for generative video and sound, including deepfakes, the piece explores uncanny relations between politics, technology, emotion, and illness.

“This video installation by Marcos Serafim engulfs visitors in an environment where things may not always seem to be what they appear. Utilizing artificial intelligence (or machine learning) processes for generative video, the artist created a multifaceted work that addresses public perception, the circulation of images, and campaigns of (mis)information specifically related to the AIDS crisis, depictions of war, and the many connotations of the term ‘virus’ today. What is the relationship between an autoimmune virus, a computer virus, and a societal sickness? The use of deepfakes—a video generation technique that combines the notions of ‘deep learning’ and ‘fakery’—allows Serafim to manipulate pre-existing audiovisual content as well as layer in his own, a strategy at the forefront of present-day concerns around the spread of false or misleading information.”
Steven Bridges, Associate Curator, MSU Broad Art Museum

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