→ Interactive A/V mapping installation with procedural generation of apology messages printed by thermal printer and display of a fake ChatGPT web UI.

Original concept : Felipe Bolivar
Technical execution : Eliès Jurquet
Original music : Igor Dubreucq
Voice performance : Alice Olausson

“Usure Passion is born in a world saturated with images produced by systems trained on human interactions taken without permission. One night, faced with one of these images used for political purposes, I felt a strange disturbance: irritation, absurdity, and almost a desire for revenge. I turned to the same AI to ask it to apologize. The source of my discomfort was also the only “presence” to whom I could address it, the only one capable of “responding,” even if only through illusion.

The installation stems from this contradiction.

It aims to reclaim a prevailing sens of disillusionment. If artifice now shapes our experience, then it may be worth pushing it to its limit to see what remains: projection, fiction, the urge to give form to what escapes us.

What is the value of an artificial entity when we dedicate time and attention to it? And what becomes of art in a world saturated with instant, standardized images?

If art relies on dialogue, and that dialogue dissolves within this saturation, then  the artist slowly slips out of the equation.

Perhaps only the solitary act of projecting remains, no longer between two conscious beings, but toward a void that reflects only our own gaze.” - Felipe Bolivar