GOLDEN GLOW, (2021)

Digital HD video with mono sound 4 min and 50 sec
Most of the GOLDEN GLOW piece is intentionally produced through Mobile apps and easily accessible open-source/free software - Animaker Voice, the ‘Mug Life' app, SCANN3D app for iPhone X series front-facing camera and the Reface app.

The video is presented as a loose monologue of an unidentified female protagonist spoken in an automated voice. The speaker appears to be both a human customer service agent and an automated assistant alike. Yet, the attitude expressed in the speech is more confrontational than customary for a character as such. Their facial expressions oscillate between life-like and uncannily artificial. The monologue is intended to remotely challenge the attitudes that humans apply towards those that work or exist in the service of them, from a position of an intentionally noncompliant agent.

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