Kiss/Crash is a queer immersive triptych using AI to explore themes of desire and the expanding gap between real experience and artificial representations in the digital age. The interactive installation consists of three interrelated works which use AI to augment, subvert, and negate the iconic image of the Hollywood kiss connecting the image-generating technology to the tradition of cinema.

On the central screen is the audio-visual piece Kiss/Crash (Video), in which a car crash is turned lovingly and repeatedly into a romantic kiss increasing in intensity with every collision. Adjacent to the central screen is Me Kissing Me, a video in which the artist engages in a slow romantic kiss with himself which becomes romantically augmented and perverted by AI-generated content. Central within the space is Crash Me, Gently, an interactive installation with a looping kiss on a TV and a foot pedal that invites viewers to accelerate the intensity of the experience, causing the kiss on screen to become more romantic but also increasingly violent and pornographic.

Using a queer lens to appropriate a classic Hollywood aesthetic, the piece reflects on the nature of images and places AI within the history of image-production technologies meant to incite and homogenize our desires. In the process, it reveals the dangerous logic of AI imagery and hints at how our most personal relationships and intimate desires will continue to be stretched and shaped by artificial representations at an accelerating pace.

Discover more at www.kiss-crash.com.