Tapetail Presents:
Ghostwork is Self Actualization
Kai-Luen Liang
Thursday, May 22, 2o25 8pm
In this solo performance, sound and video artist Kai-Luen Liang presents a new work that explores the breakdown of language in the age of machine learning. Using four-channel audio playback and multiple video projections, Kai moves through the stages of data collection, automation, and voice cloning to investigate how computers process—and distort—human language. Real and synthetic voices, live image captioning, and glitched ASMR blur the lines between human and machine expression. Through live improvisation and digital manipulation, he mirrors and disrupts the way AI learns, until meaning dissolves into noise. The result is a thoughtful and critical meditation on the ways we speak, listen, and are heard.
TICKETS
General Admission: $18
Students, Members, Seniors, Artists: $15
Seating is limited. Ticket reservations are recommended.
About the Artist
Kai-Luen Liang is an interdisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and educator working across a variety of digital media, found sound, and electronics.
Kai-Luen is faculty at the Center For Integrated Media as well as Music Technology at the California Institute of the Arts.
Tapetail is Automata’s new experimental sound series, launched in October 2022.
Tapetail presents live events and sound installations featuring the work of experimental sound artists.
We are currently looking to present shows and installations that deal with "liveness" where something about the experience is best presented live, whether through improvisation, special acoustic treatment or audience experience. There’s been a lot of great art happening in the virtual and digital world so now we’re turning our focus back towards bringing people together for sound experiences that are best experienced in a live setting.
Automata’s Tapetail series
is curated by Cassia Streb.
If you are interested in proposing work for the Tapetail series,
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