VIGIL

A sculpture featuring 9 small video screens sitting in what looks like a church candle Vigil. Each screen shows a revolving set of icons created by AI for humanity based on religious texts, day to day objects and forms of communication and technology. Is this a vigil for the end of humanity? Is this a teaching tool created by AI to help us understand ourselves? Is this a documentation of human society up until now? The work is intentionally a bit vague and alien presented as icons created somewhere between Paleolithic cave paintings and animated gifs. This work is algorithmically controlled by a computer system which decides which symbol to hi-light.

Year: 2023
Medium: Video/installation; looping portraiture, monitors/LEDs, sculptural elements
Dimensions: Variable
Location Created: New York, NY
Exhibition History: C24, Cape Town Art Fair
Keywords: remembrance, AI, digital memorial, public/private gaze, endurance, media ritual, video installation
Description: A meditative installation that holds space for reflection through sustained, looped portraits. By staging a quiet, screen-based ritual, Vigil examines how contemporary technologies transform mourning and attention—turning the act of looking into a communal, durational memorial.