During the workshops, screen recordings, chat histories, and writings were collected as part of the documentation. Below is a series of art works created from these materials.
21st Century Frankenstein
Carrie Sijia Wang, 2024. Digital videos and custom framed tablets, dimensions variable.
In Workshop 01: What Are You of the Whose AI? workshop series, participants were prompted to express their feelings, thoughts, and critiques of AI by writing a hypothetical conversation between a human and an AI. The scripts were then fed into a JavaScript chatbot template, allowing the students to perform their dialogues. The videos in this piece are screen recordings of these performative chatbot interactions.
Installation view of 21st Century Frankenstein, Carrie Sijia Wang, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
Video stills from 21st Century Frankenstein, Carrie Sijia Wang, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
Chat with Me
Carrie Sijia Wang, 2024. Perforated prints bolted to acrylic backing, 48 pages, 9 inches by 17 inches.
In Workshop 02: Chat with Me of the Whose AI? workshop series, participants were asked to create “an AI version of themselves” by giving OpenAI’s GPT models custom instructions. The prints display the instructions, participants’ reflections on the resulting chatbots, and a short chat log between the artist and the customized AI. Visitors are invited to explore the chatbots’ inner workings, flaws and biases by making marks on the pages.
Installation view of Chat with Me, Carrie Sijia Wang, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
Detailed view of Chat with Me, Carrie Sijia Wang, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
A Thousand Lines of Nonsense
Carrie Sijia Wang, 2024. Digital print and folding chair, 11 inches by 18 feet.
In Workshop 03: An Experiment with Data of the Whose AI? workshop series, participants engaged in an experiment that started with a casual chat discussing AI and other topics. The chat histories were later compiled into a database of approximately 9,000 words. Using Markov chain, the artist generated 1,000 “new” lines of text from the database, each beginning with the word “ai.” The resulting text is largely nonsensical.
Installation view of A Thousand Lines of Nonsense, Carrie Sijia Wang, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
Ethical AI Manifestos
Carrie Sijia Wang, 2024. Digital video with computer synthesized voices trained on audio clips of synchronized readings, 12 minutes.
In Workshop 04: Ethical AI Manifesto of the Whose AI? workshop series, participants collaboratively drafted ethical manifestos, reflecting their shared values and concerns for the future of AI. Each manifesto is voiced by an AI trained on participants’ synchronized readings. The resulting audio offers a flawed representation of the participants’ collective voice.
Click below to listen to a clip from one of the manifestos:
Installation view of Ethical AI Manifestos, Carrie Sijia Wang, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.