Digital Intimacies: SLEEK and CIFRA Curate Playlist of Nine Artworks Exploring Technology and Relationships

Key facts

• SLEEK and CIFRA have created the playlist 'Digital Intimacies' featuring ten artworks.
• The playlist includes works by Axl Le Yi, OONA, Carla Gannis, Sam Lavigne, Yorgos Papafigos, S()fia Braga, Špela Petrič, Jeyun, and Monika Mamzeta.
• CIFRA is a curatorial platform for media art connecting creatives from Brazil, China, France, Canada, and beyond.
• Axl Le Yi's work 'Wine, horseshoes, Old Salvador, and my good fellas Phil and Bil' uses AI and CG to follow Caramelo, an Andalusian horse from Brazil.
• OONA's 'Dear David, You’re Not Present With Me' manipulates surveillance footage to explore the one-sided relationship of being watched.
• Carla Gannis's 'Pretty Poly' transforms a family memory of her grandmother singing a murder ballad into a digital landscape.
• Sam Lavigne's 'SLW LLM' slows down large language models to critique AI as an advisor.
• Yorgos Papafigos's 'A Random Event in the Field (Partner)' uses CGI to animate inanimate objects in a toxic environment.
• S()fia Braga's 'Third Impact' features a quantum computer left alone after organic life is wiped out.
• Špela Petrič's 'Skotopoiesis' involves standing still for twelve hours a day to cast a shadow on germinating cress.
• Jeyun's 'Are We Gazing at the Same Moon?' uses generative AI to fragment an archival NASA image of the moon from 1992.
• Monika Mamzeta's 'Extra Safe' (2000) places a condom-covered barrier between two performers.