Ars Electronica Festival · 2025
XXX Machina
by Erin Robinson, Anthony Frisby
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 2025
In 2025, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “XXX Machina” by Erin Robinson and Anthony Frisby (Artificial Life & Intelligence) with an Award of Distinction.
XXX Machina is an immersive computational installation examining how artificial intelligence destabilizes erotic desire, identity, and intimacy. Operating as an “autonomous desire machine,” it generates a recursive stream of deepfake imagery, videos, stills, and 3D renderings of the artist, via diffusion models…
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