{"id":4525,"date":"2025-07-14T09:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:38:55","slug":"personhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/personhood\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Personhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
<\/span>\"Personhood\"

Personhood<\/h2>\n\n\n

Xin Wen, JJ Agcaoili<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There are long shadows along the gallery walls – figures of people who stroll through the space as you do. They are gallery guests: old and young, curious, contemplative, or art-fatigued, just like you. But these shadows have no bodies. Do you feel more or less alone among them?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Stimulus<\/strong> The struggle to determine reality has never been more pertinent than in this epoch of deceptively human AI – but that struggle is not new. The shadows in Plato\u2019s cave were Baudrillard\u2019s simulations: traces of real-world figures. Yet we are cascading into a world of simulacra – human shadows without people. The Dead Internet Theory is coming true: most of our interactions online are likely already with AI. Soon, most pictures and texts may be machine-made as well. How do we exist within a world that threatens to replace us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Experience<\/strong> A projector stands in the middle of the room. It casts long shadows along the gallery walls – of people who stroll through the space as you do. They are gallery guests: old and young, curious, contemplative, or art-fatigued, just like you. But these shadows have no bodies. Do you feel more or less alone among them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Summary<\/strong> First exhibited as a prototype at San Francisco\u2019s Asian Art Museum, Proof of Personhood<\/em> (2024) was an audiovisual, projection-mapped art experience that used interactive, disembodied shadows to evoke the uncanny feeling of occupying a space with almost-human AI agents. We propose a new version of the work for Speculum Artium. Personhood<\/em> (2025) will visually capture the essence of its predecessor while offering a more curated experience: a recording of motion-captured shadows will periodically fill the space, circumventing the challenges of real-time interactive simulation and allowing for efficient, consistent presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are long shadows along the gallery walls – figures of people who stroll through the space as you do. They are gallery guests: old and young, curious, contemplative, or art-fatigued, just like you. But these shadows have no bodies. Do you feel more or less alone among them? The Stimulus The struggle to determine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","avtor_projekta":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"avtorji_projekta":"Xin Wen, JJ Agcaoili","ura_in_datum":"","naslednji_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-95-sa25-en","category-95-sa25-projekti-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4991,"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculumartium.si\/wp21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}