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I Want To Feel It!

Adam Cole
AI generated moving image, CRT televisions
30'33" (continuous loop)
2024

Selected Exhibitions
K48 Project Space, Vienna AUS

I Want To Feel It! juxtaposes two CRT monitors, each displaying AI-generated footage of a transforming human face. The left monitor exhibits expressions of profound agony, while the right portrays moments of sexual euphoria. As the screens pulsate with varying intensities, a compelling dynamic emerges between them, blurring the boundaries of pleasure and pain.

This piece reflects on our relationship to image technologies (from cinema to pornography to AI systems) that strive to reproduce ostensibly “human” experiences: Do we seek out movies that honestly portray these intense emotions? Or do we conform our emotions to mimic what we’ve seen in the movies?

Ultimately, the work leaves us suspended in a hall of flickering mirrors, unsure of what is real and rendered, questioning the authenticity of human experience in a world saturated with simulated ecstasies.

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