The lecture Kill the Luigi in Your Head by dmstfctn & Evita Manji provides an overview of dmstfctn’s artistic practice, focusing on their exploration of opaque systems of power through a mix of performance, installation, video games, and film. By blending these multimedia forms, dmstfctn invites audiences to engage in the “demystification” of these systems through replication and re-enactment, and in their “remystification” by constructing new worlds, characters, and myths upon them. As part of this lecture, dmstfctn will be joined by Athens-based musician and vocalist Evita Manji to talk about their recent collaborative performance work, focused on the folklore of cheating AIs.
The lecture will also unpack previous video game and performance works by dmstfctn, delving into themes of AI alignment and misalignment, and the representation and faciality of machine intelligence.
The talk will take place on October 14th, at John Cabot University’s Aula Magna, at 6.30pm. The talk is organised in collaboration with Romaeuropa Festival and Re:humanism, and it is part of the lecture series Digital Delights and Disturbances Fall 2024, organised by John Cabot University’s Communication and Media Studies Department.
Presented by the curatorial platform Re:Humanism, which focuses on issues related to the emergence of AI in social and political spheres, the performance Waluigi’s Purgatory will take place on Sunday, October 13th at 7 pm at Mattatoio Pelanda in Rome as part of DIGITALIVE, the Romaeuropa festival section devoted to digital performance and internet cultures.
Digital Delights & Disturbances (DDD) offers radical ways to think out-of-the-(digital)-box we live in, imaginative and informed food for thought to feed our souls lost in the digital mayhem. The Fall 2024 edition is in collaboration with NERO and CRITT (Centro Culture Transnazionali).
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More info at ddd@johncabot.edu