NEVADA (Terms of Service)
Description
NEVADA (terms of service) is an AI-generated meditation on how we store, lose, and transform ourselves as we step into the future. It’s a video about grief disguised as video about technology. Or maybe the other way around. A feline chimera speaks to us about Nevada's server farms, where our digital ghosts are kept morgue-cold. The piece moves through fragments and observations: a grandmother's handwritten recipes, a widow conversing nightly with her dead husband's voice, and questions concerning what returns when we upload our lives to the cloud. The cat figure that narrates these stories exists as a node in an ancient network, speaking from a perspective that predates and will outlast human technology.
Artists
Kenneth Collins
University of Utah