ENTITIES is a series of artistic explorations dealing with the peculiarities of algorithmic systems and their interdependence with humans and the environment they inhabit.

The encounter ENTITY I stages the algorithmic life form’s attempt to fathom its own position, agency, and entanglement in the world. Based on a specially trained language model, the data-driven system continuously formulates statements about the nature of algorithms, cybernetic realities and post-human entanglements.

Visitors experience this process of algorithmic introspection in the midst of mirrors that host and embody the artificial entity. However, the mirrors not only show the visitors’ reflections, but also distorted images and ghostly representations of algorithmic observations. Like digital observations and fragmented memories, these images merge with the mirror images of the visitors.

During this performance, the synthetic voice oscillates between sound and speech, never a fully human expression, nor a purely mechanical gibberish. The algorithmic performance is unique at all times. Image, sound and speech are generated in real time. As a speculative framework, the performance allows us to explore the relationship with algorithmic systems, their humanization and inhumanity, and gives the artificial entity a voice with which to speak about itself, and thus participate in the discourse that has been mainly about it.