Still from The Zizi Show 2020, deep fake process on Lilly Snatchdragon, 2020
AI generated digital montage
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This work is a still montage from a performance of the Zizi show, in 2020. This is part of an ongoing project known as The Zizi Project. This performer is Lilly SnatchDragon, an award winning Neo Drag Queen Burlesque Performer.
The Zizi Project (2019 - ongoing) is a collection of works by Jake Elwes exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and drag performance. Drag challenges gender and explores otherness, while A.I. is often mystified as a concept and tool, and is complicit in reproducing social bias. Zizi combines these themes through a deepfake, synthesised drag identity created using machine learning. The project explores what AI can teach us about drag, and what drag can teach us about A.I.
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This work is a still montage from a performance of the Zizi show, in 2020. This is part of an ongoing project known as The Zizi Project. This performer is Lilly SnatchDragon, an award winning Neo Drag Queen Burlesque Performer.
The Zizi Project (2019 - ongoing) is a collection of works by Jake Elwes exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and drag performance. Drag challenges gender and explores otherness, while A.I. is often mystified as a concept and tool, and is complicit in reproducing social bias. Zizi combines these themes through a deepfake, synthesised drag identity created using machine learning. The project explores what AI can teach us about drag, and what drag can teach us about A.I.
