Today, good mood is the sine qua non condition of the terrifying “soul of the company,” and inconsistency of mood is deemed unacceptable. Starting from the digital shift of the French Labor Agency, Sas is an extravagant AI which establishes an impossible dialogue with the spectator. It underlines the absurdity of automation and the normalization of our feelings, but also our confidence in a computer system that does not know what it is calculating.
Biography:
Lorène Ceccon is a graphic designer, artist and teacher in digital arts, graphic design, digital culture and artist’s books. She is a doctoral student at the CIEREC laboratory (Jean Monnet University) and the Art and Design Digital Research Unit. Her research focuses on the artistic deconstruction of digital complexity and its reversals, under the direction of D. Méaux (CIEREC) and D-O. Lartigaud (digital UR). She works for the design research journal Azimuts. She has also worked as co-curator, designer and exhibiting artist for the Biennale Internationale du Design, Saint-Étienne.
