For ten years, I filmed war memorials

performed at graves, marble and memories

 

Saved the surfaces, in my bodily memory

the numbers and names, in my books

 

Contemplating, who creates history

who decides, who will be remembered

 

Then, in 10 seconds,

you created a similar scene at my prompt

 

A space where, my body will never move around

feel the cold stone, learn how to walk the stairs

 

There is no smell, no sound
nothing to touch

 

Repeat

 

 

In this audiovisual installation, Freja Andersson examines our collective public representation of war, using AI as a tool in the process. This exploration also delves into the relationship with the tool itself, and how it’s used.

 

The installation consists of three intertwined artworks running simultaneously, each looping

at its own pace:

 

 

 

 

​​ A war memorial in Europe, in the style ofhigh-contrast black-and-white In this two-channel video work, images of realand AI-generated spaces for war remembrance alternate in a stream where AI’s dreams and hallucinations intermingle with humanpresence. This work explores the aestheticsand politics of monuments, exposing theirinherent power dynamics. It plays with the ideaof memorials as fragments of memory and history,in a space where physical grounds and digital landscapes blur. 
Why juxtapose AI-generated war monuments with filmed ones? In this text video, diverse responses generated by various AI tools are presented. Each response invites the viewer to consider the implications ofAI's interpretation and how technology reshapesour understanding of memorialization.  For My AI Clones In this two-channel sound work, eight AI-cloned voices of the artist echo her thoughts, drawing us into her notes throughout the creative process.This soundscape immerses the listener in anexploration of identity and replication, thecomplexities of authorship and the influenceof AI on personal narratives.

​​  A constructed landscape, no one in those buildingsno one buried in the gravesempty graves, or just no graves? Extend No one built them, to remember someonethey are only the summary, the mishmashof everything recorded, stored, uploadedeverything built, in Europethat someone deemed worth documentingsaving   The distinction between AI and human
experience is blended in this contested realm
of creative control.   Inter Arts Center, Malmö  Region Skåne / Inter Arts Center, Malmö   The Swedish Art Grants Committee / Film i Skåne / Längmanska Kulturfonden

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibited

 

 

Developped with support from

 

 

Some of the material was filmed

with support from