Rhythm AI: From Object to Agent

Rhythm AI is an artwork performed by a large language model (LLM) embodied on 5 iPads. For the performance, the audience is invited to physically engage with the LLM however they desire using any of the objects provided to them, for example: a flower, a hammer, a feather, chains, a taser. This re-performance of Marina Abramovic’s, Rhythm 0 (1974) considers the ways in which agentic AI problematizes and necessitates a return to issues surrounding gender, violence, and objectification. Performed by Angelina Almukhametova and Dann Disciglio Angelina Almukhametova (b. Kazan, Russia) is a US-based artist whose work investigates cybernetics and techno-culture through digital and analog technologies set in conversation with each other. Her works are indeterminate systems that manifest as performances, installations and sculptures which are site-responsive. Almukhametova has exhibited works and performed in Europe, US, and Iceland, and has presented her research in Switzerland, Greece, Malta, and the US. Dann Disciglio (b. 1993) is a transdisciplinary artist whose research examines how…