Virtues and Vices
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Virtues and Vices: Voices from the wwwunderkammer (2023) As a further elaboration of my wwwunderkammer project (2018-ongoing), in Virtues and Vices, I present a pantheon of avatars, embodying paradigms of digital culture and my own personality, now given voices by artificial intelligence (Chat GPT3). Excerpt from Telematic Arts essay: In Virtues and Vices, Carla Gannis focuses specifically on the digital deconstruction of identity, foregrounding the eclectic pantheon of personalities that she has developed, over the years, as an integral part of her investigation into the breakdown between the virtual and the actual. The work is performative, enacting the diversity of identities that we assume on the Internet and elsewhere, both as expressions of who we are and as the alien effects of digital media, which nevertheless shape our sense of ourselves and our relationships with others. The [original exhibition of this work] was accompanied by the publication of two books: One, wwwunderkammer, documents Gannis’ project; while the other, The Archive to Come, documents an exhibition of short time-based works by more than 50 international artists that she (along with Clark Buckner) curated in Fall 2020, as part of her project, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests. Both books are featured in the gallery’s bookstore. Studio Acknowledgments: 3D Animation Assistance: Tess Adams
