FATIGUE ARCHIVE

FATIGUE ARCHIVE is an experimental film constructed from unscripted conversations between participants and an "AI Fatigue Rehab Agent" developed for the project. The conversations in the film took place during a live performance at Rhiz in Vienna, where people called the agent in real time. The project emerged as a response to the particular exhaustion experienced while working extensively with AI systems—when communication patterns shift toward the machine-like and digital fatigue sets in.

For the performance, participants were invited to engage with the AI agent in a semi-public setting. Their conversations covered relationships with AI, digital overload, emotional responses to automation, and anxieties about the future of creative work. These dialogues range from playful attempts to outsmart the system to serious reflections on copyright, surveillance, and emotional labor.

Visually, the recorded conversations are paired with AI-generated imagery resembling amateur party photographs—casual, candid moments from an event the machine never physically inhabited. These images appear in rapid succession at 24 frames per second, creating a flickering rhythm where faces and gestures emerge and dissolve.

This approach creates a form of documentation that captures how AI is currently being perceived, resisted, and misunderstood as it embeds itself into daily life. The work functions as a time capsule of a specific cultural moment that is already passing, presented through an audiovisual language that reflects the unstable, overstimulated state of human-AI relations.


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AI FATIGUE REHAB AGENT: https://fatigue-archive.web.app/