neither host nor guest#

2024
Performance

»neither host nor guest« is an aesthetic human-AI dialog in the mode of archaic friendliness, as expressed in the Zen phrase „neither host nor guest / host and guest apparently“. There is no distinction between host and guest, between I and you, between human and AI, but a relationship of openness and indifference.

The form of archaic friendliness is simulated in a large language model (LLM) and realized through an interface of simultaneity in the interaction between human and LLM. The project seeks forms of a human-machine relationship that is less characterized by our thinking in distinctions, that aims less at control and domination by means of technology, but sees technology as part of an aesthetic existence.

Photos from the performance »neither host nor guest«. Correlations Forum for AI in Art and Design, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, 2024. Photographer: Cheesoo Park.

Below: screenshots of the interface during a writing session.