Empathy Is an Open Circuit: An Interview with Ian Cheng | Spike Art Magazine

Ian Cheng’s latest film – presented at LAS in Berlin – is set in a little too fast paced future where artificial intelligence is wired to the human nervous system. Drawing on current consumer trends that shelve happiness as a product and ever-expanding use values of technologies, the film imagines a world tarnished by emotional refusal and parasocial relationships, but also one where tech is a way to negotiate and gain agency.

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