Portrait XOUS/DE
Portrait XO's explorations as a transdisciplinary artist, musician, researcher, and data activist converge in a direct dialogue with technology and artificial intelligence. These pieces, performances, and workshops invite us to question ideas and emotions triggered by human-machine collaboration; to look beyond the status quo and expand possibilities through play, complex questions, a dose of critical thinking, and a dose of curiosity.
Over the past five years, Portrait XO has intensified its research into artificial intelligence with versatility and strength: in 2020, it won the Eurovision AI Song Contest, and since 2023, it has held residencies at venues such as NEW NOW Festival, BBA Gallery, and Factory Berlin.
In 2022, it released its first audiovisual album through its Sound Obsessed label-collective. 'WIRE' began as a scientific experiment that transformed into an intimate reflection on how inspiration arises when producing in conjunction with the other self of artificial intelligence.
With 'The Cost of Connection,' its debut performance at MUTEK Mexico, Portrait XO reconfigures a century of information accumulated through the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development into a speculative sonic landscape. “Expect to hear what data like unemployment rates, anxiety disorders, and global temperature anomalies sound like,” he explains of this piece, which also critiques biases in AI and its impact on creativity, identity, and technology.
Who
Independent researcher, data activist, producer and multimedia artist Portrait XO.
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Sound Obsessed
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She participated in this year's MUTEK Forum in the Ethical Futures: Practices program with her live audiovisual, and in the panel What We Had in Common… On Loss, Extraction, Art and the AI Commons.
