WHISPERS explores how belief systems behave when confronted with optimized algorithms designed to reward those who monetize rage. The project investigates how social media personas, the so-called opinion leaders, operate in this space. It exposes the tactics and “rules of engagement“ that drive their rhetorical construct, resulting in an experience that highlights the rigid logic of dogmatic beliefs through exaggerated caricatures.
The installation centers on a live debate space where AI actors tackle viewer-suggested topics with fierce intensity. These digital figures pivot between unfiltered conflict and carefully crafted rhetoric, all in service of persuading the audience to their viewpoint. By leaving little room for nuance debate we see how coherence and empathy begin to fracture, sometimes with darkly comic results, sometimes with unsettling consequences.
WHISPERS / Calin Segal - Photo: In-dialog
Exhibit
WHISPERS
Inside the New Economy of Rage
Calin Segal (RO)
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Calin Segal
Calin Segal is a new media artist investigating the aesthetics of natural, or social systems. Over time, his work has evolved into a research-driven practice concerned with translating real-world phenomena into computational models. Through these algorithmic investigations he creates immersive experiences that bring to the foreground the subtle mechanics (ecological, computational, or sociopolitical) that govern attention, behavior, and belief.
Credits
Rosa M. Gil-Iranzo, Associate Professor Universitat de Lleida Santiago Latorre LIA, Sound Laboratory Curator Etopia Center for Art and Technology Simon Colton Professor of Computational Creativity, AI and Games Queen Mary University of London Blanca Perez Ferrer, EU project coordinator and curator Etopia Center for Art and Technology This project has been developed and is presented in the context of European Digital Deal. European Digital Deal is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.
This project has been developed and is presented in the context of European Digital Deal. European Digital Deal is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.
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