You're very special is a documentary movie about the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
It consists of a collection of visual and sound archives produced by artificial intelligence.
In the run-up to the new American presidential election, the project invites the public to question the authenticity of the images they encounter today, and our new AI-transformed archive regime.
Based on a semantic and sonic cartography of the Capitol attack, the text-to-image and sound-to-image techniques generate archival traces of the event.
The prompts used to shape the generations mirror the various words and phrases uttered by the participants associated with that day in Washington. The result is a multi-perspectivist interpretation, crossing fantasy and anachronic references.
You’re very special was built as an opportunity to let the machine gradually generate traces of the event, no longer direct but modified as a constantly renewed interpretation. Those semiotics concepts help to understand that computer science, humanities and art should be thought of as a spectrum. We could re-think the place of machines inside the human and non-human communities as agencies that are part of the construction of meaning.
In today’s world, the line between truth and interpretation is increasingly complex. “You’re Very Special” doesn’t just ask to revisit a day in history; it invites the viewer how we experience historical events in our hyper-connected age. Each of us, through our screens, had a different view, a different feeling, a different interpretation of the same moment. This exhibition mirrors that multiplicity, offering not just a look back but a space to ponder our current moment and how we understand it.
