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Rania Kims installation “BOUNDARIES OF AGENCY: Interaktive Sprachinstallation” collapses the distinction between subject and algorithm. Participants speak into SDG-themed prompts, to have their utterances re-voiced by an AI-cloned self—evoking Derrida’s spectral “hauntology” as the self becomes a digital Doppelgänger. This work stages a post-anthropocentric linguistic uncanny, where the hallucinatory capacities of large language models confront our assumptions about agency and authenticity. By rendering the act of speaking and listening indistinguishable, Kim choreographs a new ethical Topography of Connection: one in which voice-identity and machine-intelligence co-author our relational futures.
Rania Kim
Rania Kim, known as Portrait XO (she/they), is a transdisciplinary artist, musician, researcher and data activist. She won the Jazzki Award 2023, the VUT Indie Award 2021 and the Eurovision AI Song Contest 2020 with Dadabots, among others. Her AI-based audiovisual work was created during residencies at NEW NOW FESTIVAL, BBA Gallery and Factory Berlin x Sonar+D. With “SOUND OBSESSED” she founded a community for hybrid artists in computational creativity. Her album “WIRE” explores biases in AI and its impact on creativity, identity and ecology. Most recently, she presented “The Cost of Connection”, based on UN sustainability data, at MUTEK Montreal and the Gray Area Festival.
