CLAUDIX VANESIX
PERFORMANCE & NEW MEDIA
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XENOCENO: A MANIFESTO IN MOTION
︎AI REAL TIME PERFORMANCE
︎30 MINUTES (WIP)
Is the world we perceive the only one that exists? “Xenocene” refers to the age of the non-human: plants, animals, fungi and forms of artificial intelligence. Using their own body and an AI image generator, performance and XR artist Claudix Vanesix speculates on stage about non-human life and cyborgism.
The prefix “xeno”, meaning “other” or “foreign”, signals a shift from anthropocentric reality towards a multiplicity of intelligences and forms of agency. Claudix Vanesix uses their own body, as well as texts, images and sounds from non-human species as input for the AI image generator Stable Diffusion. Vanesix combines recognition of these life forms with techno-critical activism. In this way, “Xenocene: A Manifesto in Motion“ exposes the supremacist fetishes embedded in projects such as bioengineering, cryptoeconomies, space colonization, and the race toward Artificial General Intelligence.
The performance questions human dominance over the interpretation of the world by contrasting human “reality” with the “xenoreality” produced by an AI system. Is the world we perceive the only one that exists? Or merely one perspective among many, entangled in a post-human ontology where non-human intelligences also claim agency?
SONGS FOR NPCs
︎Motion Capture Concert
︎XR
︎20 minutes (WIP)
Songs for NPCs is an anti-futurist XR concert. It uses the videogame analogy of “users” and “NPCs” (Non-Playable character) to talk about power dynamics between humans such as class and gender; as well as our abusive behaviour towards other forms of life on earth.
This multimedia performance uses Motion Capture to animate multiple human and non-human characters in real time. The characters represent a “user” or an “NPC” in a “future” designed around technologies like AI, XR, space travel and bioengineering.
Each escene is a song with a different 3D world and character with their unique singing voice and role in the global ecosystem of the performance. The different voices come together to create a critic that uses humor and provocation to examine the abusive dynamics of the tech industry.
FEEDBACK
︎3D VR FILM
360 5.7K
︎20 MINUTES
After taking a magical drink, the user will dive into a spirittual awakaning in the form of a digital nightmare. In this liminal space, their physical bodies and ancestral traditions will be confronte to the unlimited posibilities and horrors of virtuality.
*To be premiered.
NON
FUCKABLE
TOKENS
(NFTs)
︎Live Performance
︎AR/VR/AI
︎40 minutes
How does the development of new technologies shape our self-perception? Non Fuckable Tokens (NFTs) combines Performance Art with Virtual and Augmented Reality to critically display the impact of technology in our era. It explores the development of internet culture from a decolonial feminist perspective, making explicit the misogyny and racism that underlies in virtuality. This performance also reflects on how futuristic narratives can be created from ancestral rituals and indigenous identities.