Verify You Are Human takes a sly yet apprehensive look between neurons, CPUs, and machines. From CAPTCHA requests to AI slop to exhaust manifolds, the gap between biological and computational “minds” seems to be on a rubber band– contracting and expanding with accelerating fervor as the relationship becomes increasingly entangled. Including intermedia works by David Bird, Alec Hall, and Julie Zhu, which each at once postulate, declare, admonish, and beseech what the hell is going on and what the hell will happen next.
Verify You Are Human is both a frantic reestablishment of the brain’s supremacy and a capitulation to our fabricated world and silicon-based minders.
Program
Hypochondriac by David Bird
TacocaT by Julie Zhu
New work by Alec Hall
This performance is produced by Qubit, a contemporary music and performance art initiative under the direction of Alec Hall. Learn more about Qubit here.