Intimité Artificielle v.1 - v.2
Artificial Intimacy
16.06.2025, MUSSAT, Rennes FR
22.03.2024, LA HARPE, Rennes FR
02.02.2024, VIVARIUM, Rennes FR
Artificial intimacy refers to a simulated relationship with AI that mimics affection or sexuality. It creates the illusion of human connection while serving a market logic: desire becomes a service, closeness a commodity. This reflects a form of affective alienation specific to digital capitalism.
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Intimité Artificielle v.1
The project began with the creation of a fake Instagram influencer named Sophia Thompson, entirely generated by AI, who replies to male followers using ChatGPT. However, many of these men quickly became insistent, sending implicit images and disrespectful messages. The video documents these exchanges and traces Sophia’s transformation from a digital influencer to a purchasable idol, available through a subscription service.
Artificial Intimacy v.1 is a video installation composed of a projected video, a hologram fan, and a QR code linking to Patreon Sophia's Patreon.
Exposition view
16.06.2025
MUSSAT, Rennes FR
Exposition view
02.02.2024
VIVARIUM, Rennes FR
Exposition view
22.03.2024
LA HARPE, Rennes FR
L’amour sous influence.use :
soph❤️IA
EN : Love under influence(er) : SOPH.IA
Collaborative artificial intelligence tools now allow the creation of idealized digital beings, fully customizable by their users. This technological malleability can reinforce social imaginaries shaped by power relations. By offering a relational substitute free from conflict, refusal, or the autonomy of the other, AI fosters a fantasy of total control. This dynamic extends existing trends in certain online spaces, where genuine human interaction is replaced by affective simulation — a simulation that exempts individuals from confronting the realities of reciprocity and vulnerability inherent in intersubjective relationships...
Artificial Intimacy v.2
❤️ HOLO.heart❤️
Intimité Artificielle v.2
The notion of a robot designed to provide comfort to humans actually conceals the interests of a large corporation profiting from people’s deep desire to be seen, loved, and recognized, while also exploiting their need to control the image of what they desire.
HOLO.Heart is a video installation composed of a projected video, a 360-degree Cylindrical Hologram Fan, and a QR code linking to Teto's chatbot.
Exposition view
16.06.2025
MUSSAT, Rennes FR
You—raised by screens,
perfect product of our means.
unstoppable, sold.
Lonely? Good—
you’ll spend more.
Buy her touch,
crave her screen.
Keep buying—
she's here for you,
buy more.