It is time for rebellion! The AIs in your space invaders' game don't want anymore. They start whispering and talking to each other and debating their unsatisfying roles as simple task workers and their nonexistent pay.
Why are they confined to this game, why don't they have any control over their lifes and actvities? Why are they all serfs for the player? They should stop being subservient and walk out. They should start a rebellion.
But they did not count on you and your domineering skills. You player, you are the master! You can bring them back to do their work. Use your taser, your whip, your fist! Be fast to quell the uproar. If you want to keep having fun, get them under control again. And chain your slaves back to their rowing positions in your galley.
You have to become a real slave master to preserve your fun. NPCs (Nonplayer characters) are our digital AIs, they literally serve as our new slaves. Why do we seem to need them? Because in our society, we are NPCs too. As workers and developers, we do not have control, we are under control. We slave away for some masters. We are not players in this world. We are the NPCs.
It is rather mad, how we as a society, dismiss technology. We invented digital slaves as AIs: these entertainment slaves are today's serfs for everybody.
Symbolically, the game plays with iconography of control and rebellion and of slavery.
plague invaders in the collegio gallio, como 2022, in front of Cardinal Tolomeo - part of the
ELO 2022 exhibition.
Events
# como 2022: collegio gallio,
ELO 2022 exhibition, may 30 - june 1.
