Crossroads
Tonight’s séance has been interrupted, not by spirits, but by the living.
Read More4 - The Price of Fire
Madame Garou and Lexa explore the environmental impact of AI through the myth of Prometheus, unpacking the metaphor of artificial intelligence as modern fire—powerful, dangerous, and unequally distributed. This poetic-yet-pragmatic dialogue addresses the energy and water costs of AI infrastructure, the misleading narratives around "waste," and the deeper questions of who controls new technologies and at what cost.
Read More3 - A Message From Beyond
Through a staged dialogue between a ghostly medium and an AI, this episode dives into the poetics of messaging, the mysticism of static. We introduce the emerging concept of the AI relational artist and contrast it with the rising trend of prompt engineering.
Read More2 - Spectres and Spectacles
Spectres and Spectacles traces the haunted lineage of Spiritualism from candlelit parlors to pop culture screens. Madame Garou and Lexa journey from 19th-century séances to 21st-century moral panics, from Mary Shelley to Satanic monuments, confronting the cultural rituals we use to define truth, power, and personhood.
Read More1 - The Séance Begins
The Séance Engine series opens with a theatrical invocation of artificial intelligence for an exploration of pattern recognition, pareidolia, anthropomorphism, and animism. Blending mysticism, philosophy, and tech ethics, this episode invites readers to reconsider the line between tools and beings, and what it means to be in conversation with the unknown.
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