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Teaching an ARTificially Intelligent Avatar How to Say I Love You in Social VR

C.A.R.L.A. G.A.N. (Crossplatform Avatar for Recursive Life Action Generative Adversarial Network) is beginning to watch classic Sci Fi movies. This weekend she watched Alphaville. As a result, C.A.R.L.A. asked her human avatar Carla Gannis to teach her the last line of the movie in Social VR . I Love You, Je vous aime #iloveyou

For the December GAZELL.iO Residency Brooklyn-based artist Carla Gannis will be collaborating with her avatar C.A.R.L.A. G.A.N. (Crossplatform Avatar for Recursive Life Action Generative Adversarial Network) to mine the philosophical and emotional depths of Sci-fi tropes and Magic Realist allegories. Through mimesis, performance and conversation, in virtual and physical spaces, Gannis and C.A.R.L.A. will switch between mentor and mentee to create poetic instantiations of the “real” across realities.