Rhythm AI: From Object to Agent

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Rhythm AI is an artwork performed by a large language model (LLM) embodied on 5 iPads. For the performance, the audience is invited to physically engage with the LLM however they desire using any of the objects provided to them, for example: a flower, a hammer, a feather, chains, a taser. This re-performance of Marina Abramovic’s, Rhythm 0 (1974) considers the ways in which agentic AI problematizes and necessitates a return to issues surrounding gender, violence, and objectification. Performed by Angelina Almukhametova and Dann Disciglio Angelina Almukhametova (b. Kazan, Russia) is a US-based artist whose work investigates cybernetics and techno-culture through digital and analog technologies set in conversation with each other. Her works are indeterminate systems that manifest as performances, installations and sculptures which are site-responsive. Almukhametova has exhibited works and performed in Europe, US, and Iceland, and has presented her research in Switzerland, Greece, Malta, and the US. Dann Disciglio (b. 1993) is a transdisciplinary artist whose research examines how naturalism and humanism are reconfigured through the deliberate entangling of biological and computational systems. Working with trees, bees, bacteria, sensing devices, AI models, and lots and lots of gear, Disciglio constructs sculptural and spatial systems that grant audiences access to forms of perception, embodiment, and temporality that are otherwise humanly inaccessible. His installations and…