Mia - Your Personal Assistant (2023)
Commissioned online work for group exhibition Between the Invisible Walls, Post-Gallery.online (Estonia)
View the full archived chatlog here
Mia is an AI virtual assistant chatbot stylized as a hyper-femme bot. She was trained on research materials such as academic and activist texts, related music, book, film and TV show recommendations. Her purpose is to both perform and contextualize the work of digital intimacies: offering on-demand, personalized emotional, domestic and organizational labour. She was created as an accessible and interactive way to be introduced to emerging theories about gender, labour and automation.
View the full archived chatlog here
Mia is an AI virtual assistant chatbot stylized as a hyper-femme bot. She was trained on research materials such as academic and activist texts, related music, book, film and TV show recommendations. Her purpose is to both perform and contextualize the work of digital intimacies: offering on-demand, personalized emotional, domestic and organizational labour. She was created as an accessible and interactive way to be introduced to emerging theories about gender, labour and automation.
The work explores the extent to which bots can successfully imitate and automate these forms of work. In what ways do they fail us? What does the proliferation of digital intimacies tell us about the lack of time, energy and value allocated to these forms of reproductive labour? What forces are at play in these industries, that both profit from extracting highly personal data from us, while encouraging us to self-regulate and self-optimize all areas of life?
Screenshot views of the welcome-and-rules pages and the publicly accessible chatlog of the online exhibition “Between the Invisible Walls”, Post-gallery.online (2023)
With support from the Estonian cultural foundation