Zizi & Me - Anything you can do (I Can Do Better), 2020
4K digital video & audio
4.55 minute loop
Ed 3,4,5/5 + 2AP
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Zizi & Me by Jake Elwes uses cabaret and musical theatre to challenge narratives surrounding AI and society. As part of The Zizi Project (2019 - ongoing), Zizi & Me...
Zizi & Me by Jake Elwes uses cabaret and musical theatre to challenge narratives surrounding AI and society. As part of The Zizi Project (2019 - ongoing), Zizi & Me explores the intersections of drag performance and AI using neural networks and deep-fake technology. A double act between drag queen Me the Drag Queen and a deepfake (AI) clone of Me the Drag Queen. Elwes trained a neural network on filmed footage. This network learnt to construct a virtual body that can be controlled by feeding it new reference movements.
2023 - More Than Human, Blanc Art Space, Beijing, ChinaNew/Now, Art SG, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore ZIZI & ME, CPH:DOX - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 2022 - Art in Flux - Radical Embodiment, The Barbican, London, UK A Night of A.I and Drag, Zabludowicz Collection, Chalk Farm, London, UK The Book of Sand, Aiiiii Art Center (2021-2022), Shanghai, China An Evening of A.I and Drag, Science Week 2022, Science Foundation Ireland - The George, Dublin, Ireland​ Creative Machine: An Interrogation of AI Creativity, Goldsmiths University, London, UK Prix Ars Electronica: Interactive Art +, CyberArts Exhibition, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria The Zizi Show (solo display), GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival, Getxo, Basque Country, Spain 2021 - Rehearsing the Future: Dance with Nonhuman, ALIEN Art Centre, Taiwan Zizi & Me (& Jake), Gazelli Art House, Mayfair, London, UK The Third Gender, A.K.T, Pforzheim, Germany