Pt. 3 SERPENT’S LOVE (2021)
Digital HD video with stereo sound 21 min and 32 sec


SERPENT’S LOVE is the final episode of three-part video work based on interactions between digital machine learning software and a mythical story. It is told from the perspective of a fictional Artificially Intelligent agent. In the series, this entity is trying to make sense of human realities in a speculative post-human future. One of its main sources is a mediated text of a Baltic folk tale poem - 'Spruce, Queen of Serpents.'

In this episode, the AI character is trying to understand love and how in particular, in this story Spruce managed to love Serpent, even though she was forced into that marriage and whether or not she actually loved him. After accepting its own limitations as a singular entity, this AI character reaches out to other algorithms in order to help it better interpret what is going on in this story. GAN(s) propose their own interpretations of what could have happened between the lines of the story, from the perspectives of both the Spruce and the Serpent.

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