Alter Ego - Excerpt

© 2020 Alter Ego. Cadie Desbiens-Desmeules. ALTER EGO Alter Ego is a video installation that provokes thoughts and discussions about the increasing role technology and artificial intelligence play in the course of humanity. Cadie Desbiens-Desmeules turns the technology back on itself, hacking Instagram’s API to expose an unfiltered glimpse of human activity before it is skewered by an algorithm. Images posted in real-time under popular hashtags are rearranged to take the form of AI-generated “influencer” faces. The multi-layered work invites the viewer to reflect on the extent to which humans are both intertwined with technology and manipulated by it. More details: http://push1stop.com/alter-ego/