2026 | United States | Fiction

Body Proxy

  • English 15 mins
  • Director | Danny Cannizzaro, Samantha Gorman
  • Writer | Samantha Gorman, Danny Cannizzaro
  • Producer | Yuxin Gao, J Noland

STATUS: Completed

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"Body Proxy" speculates that AI’s coming instrumentalization of the world will necessitate human embodiment. The installation is framed as corporate onboarding - part casting call, part IPO (“Initial Person Offering”) in which recruits enter a market where their physical agency is the asset. Assessed by AIs treating the body as a peripheral device, participants enact algorithmic choreographies where props are test vectors and compliance is a site of improvisation. Collapsing the gig-economy and agentic tool-use, the piece questions a future in which the human is not a user, but an interface - wetware executing commands the software cannot.

Embodiment AI Interface Speculative Performance
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