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Photo Credit: Jake Elwes, The Zizi Show 2020, montage of deepfake drag artists. Courtesy the artist.
Performance
A Night of A.I and Drag
4 Jun 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 176 Prince of Wales Road
- London
- NW5 3PT
- United Kingdom
Join us live at the gallery for an evening of performance as artists Jake Elwes and Me the Drag Queen utilise Artificial Intelligence and real-life drag to present a unique performance about queerness, cabaret and technology.
About
Join us live at the gallery for an evening of performance as artists Jake Elwes and Me the Drag Queen utilise Artificial Intelligence and real-life drag to present a unique performance about queerness, cabaret and technology as part of Among the Machines at the Zabludowicz Collection. The artists have invited Charlie Wood, Egon Centrik, Joy Less, Bourgeoisie and Oedipussi Rex to collaborate, as they probe and foreground what it means to queer the dataset.This live performance is part of the Zizi Project (2019 - ongoing), a collection of works by media artist Jake Elwes exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and drag performance. Drag challenges gender and explores otherness, while A.I. is often mystified as a concept and tool and is complicit in reproducing social bias. Zizi combines these themes through a deepfake, synthesised drag identity created using machine learning. The project explores what A.I. can teach us about drag and what drag can teach us about A.I.
This event is FREE, booking recommended.
