Tech Bro Debates Humanity features two AI-generated “Tech Bros”—white male avatars created from Sputniko!’s own face and voice—locked in a self-important debate about the future of humanity. Their dialogue, also AI-generated, satirizes Silicon Valley’s tendency to amplify its own echo chamber, especially when discussing world-changing ideas. Referencing the legacy of female artists who adopt male personas to disrupt gender norms, the piece also nods to Donna Haraway’s cyborg theory, blurring boundaries between human and machine, male and female. What once promised democratization has turned into an exclusive boys’ club. As DEI ideals are pushed aside, the installation asks: Who gets to shape the future—and should we trust them?
Tech Bro Debates Humanity / Sputniko! - Photo: generated by AI
Exhibit
Tech Bro Debates Humanity
Sputniko! (JP/GB)
Tech Bro Debates Humanity / Sputniko! - Photo: Osamu Sakamoto/Courtesy of KOTARO NUKAGA
Tech Bro Debates Humanity / Sputniko! - Photo: generated by AI
Tech Bro Debates Humanity / Sputniko! - Photo: Osamu Sakamoto/Courtesy of KOTARO NUKAGA
Credits
Technical Producer: Kanji Kyoda 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.
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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