FoUBARthes: Death of the Author
2024 3min
Media performance artist Dayna McLeod asked ChatGPT to write an increasingly snarky and heated dialogue between Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault about The Death of the Author, a famous essay by Barthes. This script is performed by AI actors of the theorists, with Dayna’s AI doppelgänger, DaynAI, acting as master of ceremonies.
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Media performance artist Dayna McLeod asked ChatGPT to write an increasingly snarky and heated dialogue between Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault about The Death of the Author, a famous essay by Barthes. This script is performed by AI actors of the theorists, with Dayna’s AI doppelgänger, DaynAI, acting as master of ceremonies.