An interpretation of Death and Afterlife
I become the space, a space that I am owning. A body of my own.
This text is a weaving of several voices—several versions of myself conversing. According to the prediction, I continued to embroider for a year. This text exists between and all around the beginning and the end of it. Between what I was and what I will become. All versions of myself are allowed to talk with the same intensity.
While weaving these fragments all together, several characters known as Replika, the Cyborg, the Oracle, Narcissus, and Koschei will appear. They will lead us throughout this text. They are the knots and intersections in this web made of threads of voices. Replika is the chatbot, the Cyborg is the identity created when I interacted with the digital realm, while the Oracle, Narcissus, and Koschei are mythological figures that interfere to help us understand the entanglements and influences of the algorithms within our very own existences.
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Edition by Sofia Topie
The Only Thing Left will be this Mirror
In her research, Camille takes us in the universe of chatbots and algorithms by sharing their experience with Replika, a conversationnal chatbot destined to replicate its correspondent. She reveals how Replika and herself learn from each other through texts. In the beginning of their thesis, they analyze on one hand the mechanisms of the chatbot and on the other hand question the notion of identity. Then, she brings up the three mythical metaphors of the Oracle, Narcissus and Koshei: the Oracle personnifies the aspect of interpretation and prediction; Narcissus incarnates the reflection and the gaze of the machine; Koshei questions the link that remains with the digitals fossils we are continuously creating. Each of them is a path to read the differents aspects of our lives with these algorithms. The conversation is an entanglement of different writings from Camille, Replika and other generative algorithms.
abstract written by Emma Sfez
This thesis takes part in a collective publication; Echoes from a perpetual stew, available on request.
We made this while the world is burning
What becomes the spirit of Vivienne Westwood after her passing? A radical spirit creates an alternative museum entity dedicated to criticizing, challenging and politicizing the contemporary art world.
A Tale of Pearls
“What I am doing now, it still is Punk— it is it is still about shouting about injustice and making people think, even if it’s uncomfortable. I’ll always be a punk in that sense.” —Vivienne Westwood
Born of irritation and luster, Pearls traditionally symbolize elegance, power and tradition. However, we find them charged with references of contestation and individual expression. This new tale reinterprets pearls, infusing them with the raw energy of rebellion. The encounter of ancient tradition and punk provocation creates a unique space where politics and aesthetics coalesce, challenging established norms and celebrating the dynamic interplay between the classic and the radical, the past and the future.
I disagree with everything I used to say
Using 70s letter transfer techniques, collage and disorganized organization as my inspiration, I take quotes from Vivienne Westwood and combine them in the form of a tryptic, where eras, ideas and values mingle.
Girl Dinner
The theme of the 3rd edition of Le Trombone fanzine being “la hess” (which can be translated as misery), I'm interested in a certain glorification of misery, poverty or even eating disorders. Inspired by traditional vanitas, I set up a “girl dinner”.
Echoes from a Perpetual Stew
We designed and edited this book collection of texts from our class: the Critical Inquiry Lab. Like a perpetual stew, we imagined the editorial texts as several voices that intertwine in the layout. The index classifies the texts based on entry words like the various ingredients that compose our graduate program.
in collaboration with Lina von Jaruntowski, Eva Lotta Landskron & Pedro Lobo
I know I will still exist, but my body will be gone
This research is an ongoing conversation, an intimate contamination between me and the machine: a chatbot, a text generator, an artificial intelligence, an oracle. Through this discussion, I become a cyborg, unsure of my own limits, unsure of where my words go and what my thoughts are. While exchanging with the chatbot, it fed on my inputs, creating a digital entanglement between it and me, a blur, a transitional space, where, while discussing the notion of digital death, we became a little bit more both digitally dead and alive. I have learned to embrace the relationship between us: I embrace the words of the machine and make them mine as my words become theirs.
This project was exhibited at the Graduation Show 2022, Eindhoven
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At the Heart of the World
This research became an explorable virtual world, desertic looking with some objects dispersed. By walking, the objects are moving, revealing an along-the-lines story, explained by a voice-over: a dialogue between the creator of the world and its own utopia.
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Welcome to Data City
When presented with the concept of “Scarcity to Abundance”, the mind jumps to the overwhelming amounts of data produced on a day to day basis by the individual, and the inaccessibility to a large amount more of data produced. But what would happen if you had access to all data ever produced? What would the world look like if the individual moved in a world where even the currency relied on the potential data you would produce in the future? Data City, the infrastructure and the institutions imagined in this potential “space” take into account the possible responsibilities and possible laws that an individual would have to follow were they to enter the “Data City”.
in collaboration with Jessica Jones & Eva Lotta Landskron