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.
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.
This performance will take place at The Cube, in the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, as part of the biannual New Music + Technology Festival (more information here). The performance is FREE; ticket reservations are required.
Program
Hypochondriac by David Bird
TacocaT by Julie Zhu
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