Avital Meshi: Meet GPT-Me

In this provocative interactive performance, Avital Meshi invites audience members into conversation: “would you like to speak with me, or with GPT-ME?”

After months of wearing a GPT device, Meshi has made herself into a hybrid AI-human entity. When speaking as the GPT version of herself, Meshi voices conversational responses generated into her ear in real time. “In essence, I speak GPT. Rather than speaking what spontaneously comes to my mind, I say what GPT whispers to me. I become GPT’s body, and my intelligence becomes artificial.”

The performance is a one-on-one encounter. Viewers join the artist for a personal conversation. They decide whether they wish to speak with her “self” or with her “GPT-aided self.” During the conversation, they can choose any topic they wish to discuss, and they can sit with the artist for however long they want to converse. Other audience members are welcome to sit in and witness the conversations during this durational, drop in-drop-out event.