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Чули? Чули / Chuly? Chuly
translates from Ukrainian as "Have you heard? We’ve heard" or "Have you felt it? We've felt it".
The work merges performative video gameplay with choreography to explore manipulative narratives and the embodiment of online personas. It engages with narratives shaped by human-led troll farms and artificial intelligence.
The project is anchored in a speculative story from a woman who once saw giants. ChatGPT distorts her narrative to reflect online misinformation tactics. This story indirectly guides the player through the environment. The discussed cave and giants are never revealed to the audience. This work examines today’s giants as vast and interconnected entities. These include AGIs, disinformation, and distributed troll farms. Some are engineered by humans while others are machine assisted, self-materialising, and shapeshifting.
Чули? Чули / Chuly? Chuly
XR video game / MoCap performance (2024)
At Deep Space 8K, Ars Electronica Center (AT)
At Zinnema / iMaL, Brussels (BE)