FOREVER MEETINGS is a series of software-driven artworks of endlessly evolving conversations between AI-driven avatars.
Built in custom real-time software, each iteration runs fully locally (offline), foregrounding the tendencies of the model itself. Avatars are given opposing personas, a style of conversation, and a prompt (for instance: “gossip about whether the nuclear family is anti-feminist”) and the dialogue unfolds until the prompts refresh and a new theme begins. The works take form as large-scale projections, sculptural wallworks, and screen-based pieces.
Across the series, conversation itself is the medium. The avatars perform cliche cultural scripts, inhabiting exaggerated personas and rhetorical styles as they attempt to reason through questions drawn from the artist's own curiosities, positions, and lived experiences. Because the system continuously reshuffles prompts the dialogue never resolves: it drifts, repeats, contradicts itself, and evolves over time. The fact that the model is locally stored allows the work to act as a time-capsule of the moment the model was initially trained, with the prompts dredging through its ultimately static knowledge base.
The work highlights that LLMs as conversational partners are trained on human language, and reveals and exaggerates the patterns of discourse of its original training set. In its cliches, it's often ridiculous, but occasionally relatable, which can be equally disturbing as it is comforting: someone else has thought these thoughts before.
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