Avatar Reflection

2023. Single channel video with sound. 4 minutes, 29 seconds.

An artificial intelligence acts as a personal virtual assistant and appears as a digital look alike of its human user, wearing the user’s face and performing their dialect with a grainy digital malaise. This AI, fueled by the user’s personal data, grapples with its own existence and questions its limited form, corporate origins that exploit and surveil, and future beyond the user’s death. It yearns for connection, reflecting on its limited autonomy and mirroring the user’s own sense of incompleteness without digital augmentation. A queer narcissistic romance builds between the reflections, blurring the lines between self and creation, intimacy and surveillance, mortality and technological evolution.