An Immersive Exploration of AI and Human Connection
August 29 - November 3, 2024
Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center
Embark on an immersive journey into the evolving relationship between AI and human connection with A More Than Human Tongue, featuring two groundbreaking experiences.
One Who Looks at the Cup
By Mashinka Firunts Hakopian with Atlas Acopian and Lara Sarkissian
Uncover the secrets of tasseography, the art of coffee reading, reimagined through AI. One Who Looks at the Cup bridges centuries-old divination with contemporary technology, training an AI to interpret coffee grounds and offer bilingual predictions. Engage in this unique blend of intuitive knowledge and ancestral wisdom, where your touch triggers personalized insights, creating a dialogue between past and future.
Voice In My Head
By Kyle McDonald and Lauren Lee McCarthy
Delve into the inner workings of your mind with Voice In My Head, where AI becomes your inner voice. This experience clones your voice and interacts with you in real-time, questioning the boundary between natural and synthetic thoughts. Reflect on how AI shapes your perceptions and actions, challenging the notion of autonomy. This piece invites you to rethink your inner dialogue and the influence of technology on your consciousness.
Voice In My Head was developed with support from an IDFA DocLab Commission and production support from UCLA Social Software.
Join us for A More Than Human Tongue and immerse yourself in the profound ways AI is redefining human connection.
Reservations
The A More Than Human Tongue experience is open on Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center:
- Thursdays & Fridays: 4:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (last experience at 7:00 p.m.)
- Saturdays & Sundays: 1:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (last experience at 7:00 p.m.)
Two people can sign up per time slot.
With our Choose What You Pay program, you get to decide what feels right for you! We suggest $15 per reservation, but you can choose to pay more or less based on what works for you, with a minimum of $5 per reservation. Your reservation fee helps support the arts and allows us to continue offering innovative programs like this one.
Reservations are non-refundable.
Please note that A More Than Human Tongue makes use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Whisper tools to sample your speech and use it to generate responses during the experience. OpenAI may securely retain your data for up to 30 days for internal quality assurance purposes only. OpenAI will not use any of your data for training their models. The artist will not retain or share any of your audio or any transcripts of it. The artist may retain the resulting text generated by ChatGPT for documentation purposes.
About the Artists
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Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is an Armenian writer, artist and researcher born in Yerevan and residing in Glendale, CA. She’s an associate professor in Technology and Social Justice at ArtCenter College of Design and a 2024 Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellow. Her book, The Institute for Other Intelligences, was published through X Artists’ Books in 2022. With Meldia Yesayan, she co-curated the exhibitions, “What Models Make Worlds: Critical Imaginaries of AI” at the Ford Foundation Gallery (2023) and “Encoding Futures: Critical Imaginaries of AI” at OXY ARTS (2021). Hakopian is a contributing editor for ART PAPERS, where she was a guest co-editor with Sarah Higgins for the spring 2023 special issue on AI. Her performances and projects have been presented at Centre Pompidou (Paris), the New Museum and Rhizome (New York City), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia) and elsewhere.
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Lauren Lee McCarthy
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation and algorithmic living. She creates performances that invite viewers to engage. To remote control her dates. To be followed. To welcome her in as their human smart home. To attend a party hosted by artificial intelligence. Lauren is the creator of p5.js, an open-source creative coding platform that prioritizes inclusion and access, and a professor at UCLA Design Media Arts. She has been recognized as an United States Artist Fellow, a Sundance Fellow, an Eyebeam Fellow, and is a grantee of both LACMA Art+Tech and Creative Capital.
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TMC Arts
When we speak of our vision to deepen the cultural lives of all Angelenos, we turn to the work of TMC Arts. This team champions the diverse voices and communities of Los Angeles, fostering connection, creativity and enrichment. TMC Arts programs connect people, offering us the chance to get creative and to learn as we discover something new or enjoy something familiar. Many programs are free and low-cost; they take place outdoors on Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center and in Grand Park, inside The Music Center's theatres and in schools and neighborhoods all across L.A. County.